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词汇 boot-boy
释义 boot boy
noun[ C ]
UK(alsobootboy)uk /ˈbuːt ˌbɔɪ/ us /ˈbuːt ˌbɔɪ/

boot boynoun[C] (CLEANING BOOTS)


a young professional football player who cleans the boots of the senior players on a team: 擦鞋童(足球队里为老队员擦鞋的年轻队员)
The team needs a makeover, from chairman to boot boys.
(especially in the past) a man who cleans other people's boots and shoes, for example in a hotel or a large private house:
The boot boy's job sounds exactly like what it is; his job in the great house was to clean all the boots.
"I was Peter Beardsley's boot boy when I first started my Newcastle career," he said.
He cut his sporting teeth both as a Huddersfield Town bootboy and at Headingley's indoor nets.
The butler supervised the footmen, boot boys, pages, and watchmen.
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4 3 2 1
4 4 2
4 5 1
football boot
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promedios
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reducer
relegation zone
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Competitors & participants in sports & games
People who serve other people

boot boynoun[C] (VIOLENT MAN)


a young man, usually one of a group, who enjoys behaving violently towards other people:
It is clear that some of the British boot boys had gone to Copenhagen looking for conflict, not to watch a match.
There was tension at the gig between the skinhead bootboys and the earnest student types.
Institutional racism draws a direct link between the racist boot boys and the complacent pen-pushers.
The Prime Minister ought to listen to his critics, not deploy boot boys to silence them.
The film steers dangerously close to glorifying the boot boys and their poisonous culture.
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Gangsters, thugs & criminal organizations
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firm
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goon
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hooligan
intergang
mob
mobster
moll
organized crime
thug
tong
triad
underworld
vice ring
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