English Explanatory Dictionary

Bevin Boy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the young British men conscripted to work in the coal mines between 1943 and 1948.

Word forms

Bevin Boy Bevin Boys

Etymology

After Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition British government.

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