ballocks

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Other elongated cocoa-nuts bore jauntily a black felt of 'pork-pie' order, leek-green billycocks, and anything gaudy, but not neat, in the 'tile'-line.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Cabbage-tree hats or billycocks were on every head, and for the rest a gray or blue jumper tucked into Clay-stained trousers and Wellington boots satisfied the majority.

From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward

Men in well-worn velveteens and felt billycocks, hobnobbed with men in the gaudiest uniforms ever evolved by the theatrical costumier.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

Inside the shop, billycocks in tissue-paper came out of band-boxes, and then out of tissue-paper.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

He goes on to explain the simple means by which he reduced the gentlemen in billycocks to the pitch of discomfiture implied in his metaphor.

From Mr. Justice Raffles by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)