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Subculture 59: It became all too easy for black youths to dismiss their white contemporaries along with the teachers, the police and the bosses as ‘Babylon’ or ‘crazy baldheads’.at Babylon, n.1
Subculture 59: It became all too easy for black youths to dismiss their white contemporaries along with the teachers, the police and the bosses as ‘Babylon’ or ‘crazy baldheads’. Subculture 59: It became all too easy for black youths to dismiss their white contemporaries along with the teachers, the police and the bosses as ‘Babylon’ or ‘crazy baldheads’.at baldhead, n.
Subculture 150: ‘Crazy baldhead’ [...] refers literally to those who don’t wear ‘dreadlocks’.at baldhead, n.
(ref. to 1960s) Subculture 53: The hard-core Soho mod of 1964 [...] encased in ‘basket weaves’ or Rael’s originals.at basket weaver (n.) under basket, n.1
(ref. to 1960s) Subculture 51: Trad depended on a beery ‘blokeish’ ambience.at bloke, n.
Subculture 26: Bum freezers and bovver boots.at bovver boots (n.) under bovver, n.
Subculture 26: Brothel creepers and winkle pickers. [Ibid.] 67: Fluorescent socks, black suede creepers and jacket emblazoned with [...] ‘Gene Vincent lives’.at brothel creepers, n.
Subculture 35: The ‘dread’ [...] the Messianic feel of this ‘heavy’ reggae.at dread, n.2
Subculture 44: Teds, greasers.at greaser, n.1
Subculture 36: An expressive combination of ‘locks’, of khaki camouflage and ‘weed’.at locks, n.1
Subculture 26: Moddy crops and skinhead strides.at moddy (adj.) under mod, n.2
Subculture 43: The rude boy crop was grown out and allowed to explode into an ethnic ‘Afro’ frizz, or plaited into ‘locks’ or ‘knots’ (the ubiquitous natty or knotty style).at natty, n.2
Subculture 163: ‘Rank’ was a term of approval.at rank, adj.2
Subculture 162: The word ‘punk’, like the black American ‘funk’ and ‘superbad’ would seem to form part of that ‘special language of fantasy and alienation’.at superbad, adj.
Subculture 35: The colours of the Ethiopean flag emblazoned on items as various as badges [...] tams (woollen hats), walking sticks. [Ibid.] 43: The pork-pie hat disappeared to be replaced by the roughly woven ‘tam.’.at tam, n.
Subculture 38: Power was at home here [...] channelled through a battery of home-made speakers. It was present in every ‘toasted’ incantation.at toast, v.2
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