Belfast confetti
Meaning
Noun
- Large ship-building rivets, nuts, bolts and other metal scrap used as missiles by Protestant shipyard workers during sectarian rioting in Belfast.
Origin
- Slang, dating from the late 1800s. Much later made the title of a poem by Ciaran Carson.
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