bovver boots

But it didn't take long for him to rip off the lace, and reveal the bovver boots.

Punk rockers continued to be associated with bovver boots until the mid-1980s.

This is a strange, staccato sort of production, lead voice stamping, as in bovver boots, on the lyrics.

Zoe is a quirky lady who says she's more at home wearing bovver boots than elegant stilettos.

During the 1960s, steel-toe boots were called bovver boots.

Heavy steel-toe boots were stereotypically worn by skinheads, and were termed bovver boots.

Bovver boots were adopted by skinheads and punks as part of their typical dress and have migrated to more mainstream fashion, including women's wear.

In 2000, the Birmingham Mail referred to broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson as "old bovver boots".

One girl talked about [bava bu:t] "bovver boots", a type of heavy boot associated (in the past at least) with toughness and aggression.

And now, after being booed off stage in New York, the woman they call Bambi in Bovver Boots says she is quitting the music business.

Punk rock band The Nipple Erectors released a song in 1977 titled "Venus in Bovver Boots".

Punk rockers were seen in the 1970s to "[stamp] their bovver boots", with the boots being part of their "sartorial expressions of violence and disgust".

In 1998, UK high street chain Boots promoted a ladette cosmetics range with a model "dressed in combat trousers, bovver boots and goggles".

In the 1970s and 1980s the shop became a mecca for skinheads and punks from all over the world, who came to buy bovver boots or brothel creepers.

Bovver boots were seen in the 1980s British TV series The Young Ones, being worn by punk Vyvyan Basterd.

A former disco dancing champion from Pontypool who wears tight jeans, bovver boots and a mod's parka off duty, she speaks with a beguiling Welsh lilt and her conversion to bowls is well worth listening to.

Said a daily newspaper: 'The Beatles and the Stones may have had similar scenes but even they could never have induced bullet-headed toughies with flat noses and bovver boots to wear stick-on gold stars round their eyes.'

On the benches near Owen sat a couple of gloomy skinheads, laces missing from their bovver boots; a man who resembled nothing more than a bank clerk, perhaps an embezzler, Owen thought; and a nervous-looking young woman, smartly dressed, biting her lip.

Musician PJ Harvey was noted as "appear[ing] immersed in rock 'n' roll" around the time of her album Dry in 1992, due in part to her "leather apparel, hair in a bun and black bovver boots".