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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