Showing results for boot boy. Search instead for bootboys.

boot boy

British

noun

a member of a gang of hooligans who usually wear heavy boots

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

I had to fling myself against the button to ring for the boot boy.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

One of my squibs would not go off, and Gowing said: “Hit it on your boot, boy; it will go off then.”

From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George

The fortunes of the page and club boy await the zeal of an investigator; the knife and boot boy soon passes to some other occupation.

From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Bray, Reginald Arthur

"He, he, he," laughed the boot boy as he turned them up for me to look at.

From O'Conors of Castle Conor by Trollope, Anthony

"Rickie, can I give these sandwiches to the boot boy?" said the one.

From The Longest Journey by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023