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187 ; bouncer : Someone employed to eject troublemakers or drunks. ; bovver boy : A youth who deliberately causes or seeks out trouble (bother).CED 1991, p. 188 ; bovver boots : Heavy boots, sometimes with a steel toecap, worn by bovver boys and used for kicking in fights.
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Following the lack of commercial success of their 1969 debut Beginnings, Ambrose Slade, with their new manager Chas Chandler, began considering their next career move. Having not been pleased with the debut album, Chandler thought the band would benefit from writing their own material and a change of image. He decided that the band should project a skinhead image in the effort to generate interest in the band. Both guitarist Dave Hill and bassist Jim Lea were mortified by the revised image, but the band agreed to try the idea and adopted Dr Marten boots, braces, cropped hair and aggressive "bovver boy" posturing.
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In some areas, such as London and northern New Zealand, and in some dialects, including African American Vernacular English, many people realise the phonemes and as and , respectively. Although traditionally stigmatised as typical of a Cockney accent, this pronunciation is fairly widespread, especially when immediately surrounded by other fricatives for ease of pronunciation, and has, in the early 20th century, become an increasingly noticeable feature of the Estuary English accent of South East England. It has in at least one case been transferred into standard English as a neologism: a bovver boy is a thug, a "boy" who likes "bother" (fights). Joe Brown and his Bruvvers was a Pop group of the 1960s.
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