Brylcreem Boy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the hair-styling product Brylcreem.
Noun[edit]
Brylcreem Boy (plural Brylcreem Boys)
- (slang, World War II, historical) A member of the Royal Air Force
- 2011, D. B. Reynolds, Loving and Writing, Writing and Loving, page 102:
- Billy Haldane, Ursula's handsome, debonair father, was a 'Brylcreem Boy,' a Royal Air Force officer.
- 2015, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, page 118:
- Why, just the other day, I read about an RAF chap who went from being a Brylcreem Boy to burned beyond recognition. Now he's been wed to the gorgeous daughter of a high commander, Lord Hoity Toity somebody or other, […]