Perry boy

English

Etymology

From their typical attire, the Fred Perry shirts.

Noun

Perry boy (plural Perry boys)

  1. (Northern England, historical) A member of the casual subculture in Manchester in the 1980s.
    • 2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy‎[1], Routledge, →ISBN:
      "Scally" (short for scallywag) was actually a Liverpudlian archetype; the Manchester equivalent was the Perry boy, named after their Fred Perry shirts.
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