Meaning of Brixton shuffle | Babel Free

Definitions

A shuffling style of walking associated with former prisoners.

UK, no-plural, slang

Examples

“[…] bearing unmistakably that scrubbed, carbolic look which is the hallmark of people who have lived in institutions. This institutional aura is as easy to detect as is the Brixton shuffle which characterises the gait of a man who has been 'inside'.”

“You got into the Brixton shuffle. Shove, step, fuck off. Shove, step, fuck off, until you were clear. She didn't know what it was about Brixton; it was over some fault and allowed a strange brew, a ghost beer, to snake out from the earth's entrails: […]”

“They looked great, no more Brixton shuffle. From A wing there were shouts of support from shadows moving at the barred windows.”

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