heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
Examples of 'bovver boots' in a sentence
bovver boots
Their other most memorable image was a pair of bovver boots.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She also wore bovver boots, but she didn't need to.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But scratch just slightly beneath their ill-fitting suits and the bovver-boots politics are still clearly on show.
The Sun (2008)
Layer your dress over a roll-neck and team with a bright jacket and bovver boots.
The Sun (2014)
Maribou trim fluttered on silk shifts and stood in plumes on bovver boots and trainers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Not bad for a youth who once turned up to his school ballet class in a leotard and bovver boots.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
As for the image - the mockney accent and the bovver boots - it is probably harder to remove than a tattoo.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Young men from poor backgrounds wearing bovver boots and smart casual clothes spend their days smoking dope, drinking and entertaining themselves with violence.
The Sun (2011)
She is dressed in a teensy-tiny leopard-print nightie-top thingy over knee socks and giant purple bovver boots.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It attracted unsavoury admirers in the 1960s and 1970s, as the pet of choice for skinheads with bovver boots.