Peaky Blinder

English +s Proper noun Peaky Blinders en peaky blinder gang member. en 1899 The Central Literary Magazine - Volume 14 72 In our suburban retreats, less disturbed by Peaky pranks, though now and again hedges, fences, and flower beds testify to a visit, we are too apt to think it is no concern of ours, or to assert that, as regards Peaky Blinders at any rate, " I am not my brother's keeper". en 1989 Crime and the City: Essays in Memory of John Barron Mays David M. Downes 26 In other cities similar gangs were known by different names. In Birmingham they were called “Peaky Blinders' or 'Sloggers', while in Manchester and Salford they were known and feared as 'Scuttlers' and later as 'Ikes' or 'Ikey Lads'.