boy : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a boy serving as an acolyte
  

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• noun an expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status
  brain truster.
  

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• noun a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players
  

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• noun a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow
  barrow-man; costermonger.
  

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• noun (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
  

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• a boy (usually a chorister) elected bishop, in old Christian sports, and invested with robes and other insignia. He practiced a kind of mimicry of the ceremonies in which the bishop usually officiated.

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• noun United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
  Bryan; Great Commoner; William Jennings Bryan.
  

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• noun a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts
  Boy Scout.
  
• noun a man who is considered naive
  boy scout.
  

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• noun an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys
  
• noun a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts
  Boy Scout.
  
• noun a man who is considered naive
  boy scout.
  

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• noun a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training
  

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• noun an extremely talented young male person
  

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• a popular English name of Southernwood (Artemisia abrotonum);) called also lad's love.

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• childish amusements; anything trifling.

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• noun Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic
  herb mercury; herbs mercury; Mercurialis annua.
  

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• noun an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth
  broth of a man.
  

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• noun a young man acting as a servant on a ship
  

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• a boy whose duty is wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

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• (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy.

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• in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. Colloq.

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• noun a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing
  city slicker.
  

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• noun a student (or former student) at a college or university
  college man; collegian.
  

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• noun someone employed to make deliveries
  deliverer; deliveryman.
  

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• noun a man employed to operate an elevator
  liftman; elevator man.
  
  • in England they call an elevator man a liftman

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• noun a boy who earns money by running errands
  errand boy.
  

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• noun a boy who has grown up on a farm
  

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• noun street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
  grievous bodily harm; liquid ecstasy; max; easy lay; scoop; goop; soap.
  

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• noun a man who is unusually successful at an early age
  golden boy.
  

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• noun a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group
  good ol' boy; good old boy.
  

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• noun a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group
  good ol' boy; good old boy.
  

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• noun a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group
  good ol' boy; good old boy.
  

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• noun a delivery boy for groceries
  

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• an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.

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• a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.

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• a surgeon's attendant on shipboard. Smollett.

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• noun a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests
  mamma's boy; mama's boy.
  

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• noun a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests
  mamma's boy; mama's boy.
  

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• noun a boy who earns money by running errands
  errand boy.
  

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• noun a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests
  mamma's boy; mama's boy.
  

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• noun a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office
  

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• noun a familiar term of address for a man
  old man.
  
• noun a vivacious elderly man
  
• noun a former male pupil of a school
  

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• noun an exclusive informal network linking members of a social class or profession or organization in order to provide connections and information and favors (especially in business or politics)
  
  • professional women have developed an old boy network of their own

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• noun a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men
  
  • he quickly became one of the boys

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• the Irish insurgents of 1784; so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. Cant

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• noun a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
  wedge; bomber; hero; sub; hero sandwich; submarine; zep; Cuban sandwich; grinder; torpedo; hoagie; Italian sandwich; hoagy; submarine sandwich.
  

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• noun a male poster child
  

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• a roaring, noisy fellow; name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl.

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• noun a serviceman in the navy
  bluejacket; navy man; sailor.
  

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Sea" boy`

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1. A boy employed on shipboard.

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• a boy who serves in a ship. "Seal up the ship boy's eyes." Shak.

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• noun a young male shop assistant
  

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• noun a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
  lad; laddie; sonny; cub.
  

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• noun a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes
  Teddy boy; Ted.
  

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• noun a British youth subculture that first appeared in the 1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock'n'roll music; proletarian and xenophobic, they were involved in race riots in the United Kingdom
  
• noun a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes
  Teddy boy; Ted.
  

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• the Devil. Slang

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• (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it.

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• noun an assistant who supplies drinking water
  waterer.
  

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• noun someone who is punished for the errors of others
  scapegoat.
  

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• noun a male person assumed to have been raised by wolves
  

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• noun a man who is unusually successful at an early age
  golden boy.
  

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• a gold coin, as a guinea. Slang Arbuthnot.

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• guineas. Slang, Eng.

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