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Young men lose the head with condition briefly of Pearl's home (6)

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I believe the answer is:

oyster

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'young men lose the head' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'with condition briefly of pearl's home' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'condition' becomes 'sty' (sty is a kind of condition).
'briefly of' means to remove the last letter (I've seen 'briefly' mean this).
'pearl's home' becomes 'oyer' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sty' with its final letter taken off is 'st'.
'st' inserted within 'oyer' is 'OYSTER'.

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(Other definitions for oyster that I've seen before include "the world may be yours" , "bit of chicken meat" , "Bivalve shellfish" , "Secretive person; bivalve" , "Capital card" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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