The delinquent category includes crimes.
It even became associated with a derogatory term in Britain: the "chav," or working-class delinquent, who wreaked havoc while wearing a knockoff Burberry cap.
His own troubled childhood provided the inspiration for Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959; The 400 Blows), a semiautobiographical study of a working-class delinquent.
The more patriotic of these casuals began to adopt home-grown brands, and Burberry, previously the preserve of greying executives on golfing holidays, became a favourite.By the early 2000s the company's distinctive camel-coloured check had become the uniform of the "chav", the stereotypical white working-class delinquent looking for trouble.
Most New Jersey kids who build a nascent life in New York are similar: the intellectually curious whose tastes run more toward the Met than to the mall; the ones who find the suburbs too boring and confining; the higher class of delinquent who favors the city's edgier thrills.
My mother developed a time-limited practice dealing with delinquent children and middle class kids with severe reading disorders.
Many of them would concur with the view of Blackadder, who characterised military pilots as "a bunch of upper-class delinquents [who] do 20 minutes work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris, drinking gallons of champagne and having [sex with] dozens of pink, moist, highly-experienced French peasant girls".
Depending on which paper you read the next day, Mr. Brown was being bullied as badly as if he were a substitute teacher in a class of juvenile delinquents, the Elephant Man or a bear on a chain.
Sharath, who was patrolling the delinquents in the back of the class, sat down beside me and casually folded his legs into the lotus posture.
That would allow the loan to be classed as "current" rather than "delinquent".
