peaky blinder

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词形变化

peaky blinders 复数 peaky blinders

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of the Peaky Blinders gang. They operated in Birmingham from the end of the 19th century until after the First World War. Gang members had a distinctive appearance: close-cropped hair, bell-bottomed trousers, peaked caps, and a white scarf knotted at the throat.

    历史
  2. 2.

    A peaked cap like that worn by a peaky blinder, especially when worn with the peak pulled down to the side of the head.

    古体
  3. 3.

    Any ruffian or street gang member.

词源

From the name of a street gang in Birmingham, the Peaky Blinders, who got their name From the peaked caps their members wore, and from blinder (“exceptional performance”) or from the practice of pulling a victims hat over his eyes so that he could not identify his attacker. There is a folk etymology claiming the "blinder" part of the name comes from the practice of stitching razor blades or weights into the peak of the cap and using it as a weapon to blind one's opponent, but this has been shown to be apocryphal.

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