boy

boy
1 /bOI/ noun (C)
1 CHILD a male child or young man: The boys all wanted to play football. | little boy (=a young male child)
2 SON a son: I love my boys, but I'd like to have a girl too. | little boy (=a young son): How old is your little boy?
3 office/paper/delivery etc boy a young man who does a particular job
4 the boys informal a group of men who are friends and often go out together: Friday's his night out with the boys. | one of the boys (=popular with a group of men)
5 ANIMALS a way of addressing a male horse or dog: Good boy!
6 JOB boys informal
a) a group of men who do the same job: Oh no! Wait until the press boys get hold of this story.
b) men in the army, navy etc, especially those who are fighting in a war: our boys on the front lines
7 boys will be boys used to say that you should not be surprised when boys behave badly, are noisy etc
8 city/local/working-class boy informal a man of any age considered as being affected by the place and social group that he was born in: the classic story of a local boy who's made good | I'm just a country boy.
9 old boy/my dear boy BrE old-fashioned a friendly way for one man to speak to another man
10 AmE taboo an offensive way of addressing a black man
-see also: blue-eyed boy, jobs for the boys job (5), mama's boy, mummy's boy, old boy, wide boy 2 interjection spoken especially AmE
1 also oh boy used when you are excited or pleased about something: Boy, that was a great meal!
2 oh boy used when you are slightly annoyed or disappointed about something: Oh boy! Bethany's sick again.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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