Meanings
plural Brylcreem Boys
- historicalslangWorld War IIA member of the Royal Air Force
Billy Haldane, Ursula's handsome, debonair father, was a 'Brylcreem Boy,' a Royal Air Force officer.
2011, D. B. Reynolds, Loving and Writing, Writing and Loving, page 1021 more example
Why, just the other day, I read about an RAF chap who went from being a Brylcreem Boy to burned beyond recognition. Now he's been wed to the gorgeous daughter of a high commander, Lord Hoity Toity somebody or other, […]
2015, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, page 118
Origin
From the hair-styling product Brylcreem.
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