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What is a scally?

What is a scally? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) A rascal or miscreant, a scallywag.
  2. (Manchester) A jobless yob who has little or no education and is suspected of having committed some type of crime.
  3. A flat cap or driving cap.
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The sharp wit is important, but it needs to be complemented by something, or you're just a street-wise scally.
He is visited by Pat, the black-market scally with retribution on his mind for the loss of the trawling father he never met.
Apparently, there are many kinds of tetter, including moist, branny, scally, scald-head, salt-rheum, and running tetter.
Outside Liverpool's Melwood training complex, a scally is bunking off school.
To the scally, these festivals were and still are, easy pickings.
They are your average scally lads, bad hair, tight jeans, unwashed, smelly, drunken.

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