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