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Belfast confetti

(slang) Large ship-building rivets, nuts, bolts and other metal scrap used as missiles by Protestant shipyard workers during sectarian rioting in Belfast.

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(slang) 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 19th century. Much later made the title of a poem by Ciaran Carson. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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