bovver boots

== English == === Etymology === From bovver (“trouble”) + boots. === Noun === bovver boots pl (plural only) (1970s British slang) Stout lace-up boots, especially Dr. Martens, perceived to be worn for the purpose of kicking people in fights, and popular with skinheads or other troublemakers out looking for bovver. 1991, Rupert Loydell, review of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, in December 1991-January 1992, ThirdWay, page 41, I remember a punk friend - cockerel haircut, leather trousers, bovver boots, and ripped jumper - being shocked at the TV retrospective of the mid-eighties where long-haired oiks in flared trousers stared desultorily at some screaming youths on stage. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === bovver boot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “bovver boots n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present