soulboy

noun

soulboy

noun

Etymology From soul + boy.

1

An adherent of any of a variety of British subcultures of the 1970s and 1980s that focused on soul or funk music and dancing, most notably the northern soul movement.

  • Paul Gorman: The soulboy emerged early- to mid-seventies. And he was one of the later outcrops of mod. Clothes-obsessed, dance music-obsessed, usually black music dance-obsessed.2012, Fred Perry Presents Subculture:

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