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Perry boy

noun

Etymology

From their typical attire, the Fred Perry shirts.

Definitions

  1. 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.

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