Definition of "bootboys" []

• A youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There were two official "bootboys" paid by the Housemaster for cleaning all boots and shoes, and evcryone, including us fags who had cleaned both our own shoes and the Bloods 'shoes daily, tipped the bootboys at the end of each term for their services."
• "As one refugee puts it: Smith's bootboys will never let him speak."
• "British jihadis are mimetic, just as British Movement bootboys were mimetic neo-Nazis."