Perry boy
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Perry boy
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From their typical attire, the Fred Perry shirts.
noun Perry boys
- 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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title = {Perry boy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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