soulboy

English

Etymology

soul +‎ boy

Noun

soulboy (plural soulboys)

1. An adherent of any of a variety of British subcultures of the 1970s and 1980s that focused on soul or funk music and dancing, most notably the northern soul movement.
   • 2012, Fred Perry Presents Subculture:

     Paul Gorman: The soulboy emerged early- to mid-seventies. And he was one of the later outcrops of mod. Clothes-obsessed, dance music-obsessed, usually black music dance-obsessed.