Perry boy
English
Etymology
From their typical attire, Fred Perry shirts.
Noun
Perry boy (plural Perry boys)
- (Northern England, historical) A member of the casual subculture in 1980s Manchester.
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- "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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