Definitions for BOY
BOY

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. male child, boy(noun)

   a youthful male person

   "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"

2. boy(noun)

   a friendly informal reference to a grown man

   "he likes to play golf with the boys"

3. son, boy(noun)

   a male human offspring

   "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. boy(Noun)

   A young male human.

2. boy(Noun)

   A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.

   Whatever else you say about him, the boy can play.

3. boy(Noun)

   A male servant.

   When the 'dipenda' (independence movement) in Belgian Congo turned violent, the white colonisators' often materially privileged black domestic boys were mistrusted and often abused as collaborators.

4. boy(Noun)

   A non-white slave or labourer; a male African-American of any age.

5. boy(Noun)

   A lower-class or disreputable man; a worthless person.

6. boy(Noun)

   An adult male, particularly when used by straight women or gay men to refer to someone considered attractive.

7. boy(Noun)

   Male (usually adult) friend; mainly used in the plural: boys.

8. boy(Noun)

   A proud parent's son, regardless of age.

   That's my boy.

9. boy(Noun)

   A caring owner's pet or working animal, regardless of age.

   Here, boys, heel; yes, Bobby, show the puppies how, good boy!

10. boy(Verb)

    To use the word boy to refer to someone.

    "Don't boy me!"

11. boy(Interjection)

    Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Boy(noun)

   a male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son

2. Boy(verb)

   to act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage

Freebase(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Boy

   Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released on October 20, 1980. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album received generally positive reviews. Common themes among the album's songs are the thoughts and frustrations of adolescence. The album included the band's first UK hit single, "I Will Follow". Boy's release was followed by U2's first tour of continental Europe and the US.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Boy

   boy, n. a male child: a lad: a young man generally, used for 'man' in Ireland and elsewhere: (Shak.) a camp-follower: (obs.) knave: a native servant in South India, China, a male negro slave or native labourer in the South Seas.—v.t. to play the boy.—n. Boy′hood.—adj. Boy′ish.—adv. Boy′ishly.—n. Boy′ishness.—Boy's love, a popular name for southernwood; Boy's play, trifling. [M. E. boi, boy; Fris. boi; Dut. boef, Ger. bube.]

Rap Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. boy(noun)

   Friend, possibly short for homeboy. That's my boy.

2. boy(noun)

   Racist term used by white masters to address a slave. Boy is a racist white word -- Dr. Dre (movie: Who's The Man)

3. boy(noun)

   Heroin (Dope)

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. boy

   A male human being.

   Boys and girls are beautiful children.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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1. boy

   Song lyrics by boy -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by boy on the Lyrics.com website.

2. BOY

   What does BOY stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the BOY acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'BOY' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #800

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'BOY' in Written Corpus Frequency: #542

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'BOY' in Nouns Frequency: #164

Anagrams for BOY »

1. byo, BYO

2. yob

3. BYO

How to pronounce BOY?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BOY in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BOY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of BOY in a Sentence

1. Del Estal:

   His daily life is hard. ... Everybody around him was working and having a family, and he cannot have this, so on one hand, it's (a) hard situation, and on the other hand, it's easier than the other boy I met.

2. Siegfried Fischbacher:

   My eye caught something in the window ; it was a book on magic, i knew I had to have it. I can't explain, even now, why that was. All that stood in the way was five marks -- for me a fortune, a fortune for any little boy in Germany in 1947.

3. Bill Richard:

   I saw a little boy who had his body severely damaged by an explosion, and I just knew from what I saw that there was no chance.

4. Joe Rodgers:

   In a strange sense, a conversation between a teenage boy and girl from 10 feet apart creates a kind of psychological safe space that some may come to appreciate, lots of teenagers aren't nearly ready for intimacy.

5. James Collins:

   At minimum, doing it helps maintain what you have, especially as an athlete and a football player, as he’s going through a season and his bodies getting beat up, everything starts to shut down — ‘Boy, I feel stiff. I’m sore. I can’t do this.’ But if you’re doing things throughout the season, like yoga, to help maintain what you’ve established with your body, that helps you get through the season, helps reduce your chance of injury and things of that nature.

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