Perry boy

noun

Perry boy

noun

Etymology From their typical attire, the Fred Perry shirts.

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Northern England, Historical A member of the casual subculture in Manchester in the 1980s.

"Scally" (short for scallywag) was actually a Liverpudlian archetype; the Manchester equivalent was the Perry boy, named after their Fred Perry shirts.2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy, Routledge, →ISBN:

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