Usually means: Aggressive, confrontational behavior; British slang.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. bovver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. bovver: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Bovver, bovver: Wordnik
  4. bovver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. bovver: Wiktionary
  6. bovver: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. bovver: Dictionary.com
  8. bovver: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. bovver: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. bovver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bovver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bovver: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. bovver: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bovver)

noun:  (British, slang) Violence, especially that associated with youth gangs.
noun:  Pronunciation spelling of bother. [Fuss, ado.]
verb:  Pronunciation spelling of bother. [(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.]

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