Perry boy

noun

A member of the casual subculture in Manchester in the 1980s.

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Meanings

nounPerry boy (plural Perry boys)

plural Perry boys

  1. Northern EnglandhistoricalA 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.

    2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy, Routledge, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

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casual

Origin

From their typical attire, the Fred Perry shirts.

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Perry boy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Perry%20boy

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