Brixton shuffle

English Etymology In reference to HM Prison Brixton and its exercise yard. Noun ! en UK slang A shuffling style of walking associated with former prisoners. en 1978 Mark Goulden Mark My Words! 189 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'. en 2001 Tibor Fischer Don't Read this Book If You're Stupid 238 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: en 2006 John Barker Bending the Bars 15 They looked great, no more Brixton shuffle. From A wing there were shouts of support from shadows moving at the barred windows.