crustie

crustie
n
British
a homeless person and/or beggar, espe-cially a member of a militant subculture of importunate vagrants of the early 1990s, centred on the English West Country, who practised deliberate self-degradation and embraced personal filthiness (hence the name, from the encrustations on bodies and clothing). Other names for members of the same subculture were fraggles, hedgers, scrotes, smellies, soap-dodgers and cider-punks.
► 'The Crusties of Bath are, with their coun-terparts at the other end of the social spectrum, the smooth lawyers and medics, considerably more redolent of the city Jane Austen knew than anything else the tourist is likely to see.' (Reader's letter to the Independent, No-vember 1991)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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