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Word: scuttler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from London's East End - the look was edgier. A youth worker in the 1890s noted that a proper Manchester "scuttler" could be identified by a loose white scarf, plastered-down hair, bell-bottom trousers and a girlfriend who "commonly wore clogs and a shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking 'Bout Their Generation | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

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