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Meaning boy meaning

What does boy mean?
Definitions in simple English

boy

A boy is a male child or teenager; someone who is not a man yet. He had a pretty wife and two little ones: a boy and a girl. My oldest son was a Boy Scout in England. The boys basketball team won five games in a row. Two teenage boys died in the crash. A 12-year-old boy stands at the window and watches two men outside. An immature man. "I am a grown man" "you are not a man, you are a little boy, you don't act like a man". A male animal. I told my mom I wanted a boy puppy, not a girl one.

boy

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 a friendly informal reference to a grown man he likes to play golf with the boys (= son) a male human offspring their son became a famous judge his boy is taller than he is (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man get out of my way, boy

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Simple sentences

The boy standing by the door is my brother.
He was the only boy who solved the problem.
Everybody laughed at the boy.
The boy adjusted his cap.
The little boy is afraid of the dark.
The boy must have broken the window.
This is the boy.
The lady that is speaking to that boy is his teacher.
That boy is running.
The boy standing over there is my son.
A boy and a girl came in. I spoke to the boy, who seemed to be older than the girl.
The boy is bashful and doesn't talk much.
Is it a boy or a girl?
This is the boy I think about.
You are a good boy.
I saw you with a tall boy.
The rich merchant adopted the boy and made him his heir.
He is a clever boy, to be sure.
We marveled at the little boy's eloquence.
The boy singing a song is my brother.
That boy who is speaking English is taller than I.
The youngest boy dropped behind the other hikers.
The boy who writes best wins the prize.
A boy is walking across the street.
Don't be a bad boy.
Now you are a big boy, behave yourself.
Hunger compelled the boy to steal money from the cash register.
No other boy in our class is more studious than Jack.
The doctor bent over the sick boy.

Movie subtitles

Oh boy, this is it guys, this is it!
Oh boy!
Elder Price seems like a wonderful boy, Arnold!
Boy you boys have a lot of catching up to do now that you're companions.
Now you get out there and you baptize those Africans, boy!
They're taking just one boy, but why did they come as a big group?
When we met, I was the water boy for my high school basketball team, and I got stuffed in a locker after practice.
Ohhh, boy.
Once this bad boy gets going, it's gonna chill your milk, preserve your meat, call your sister, cure hepatitis.
Like, the uncaring bad boy.
Guess I'm just a bad boy.
Oh, boy, look at this.
Boy, she really digs you.
Stop chasing after the cartwheeling magician idiot boy, and start paying attention to the guy with the bountiful, beautiful hair, who happens to really care about you.
Your son Odilon is a good boy and a zealous apostle of our Saint-Simonian cause.
My father didn't have a son, so he taught me to read and write like a boy.
Did you know that the boy with typhoid died?
How long will that boy stay in our home?
I forbid you to see this boy.
Yes. Boy, come here.
How's your boy doing?
So, the play is a love triangle between Hero and his boyfriend, Coma Boy, who's in a coma, and Hope, some girl he meets online?
I'd only miss doing things with Coma Boy.
I realized that Hero and Coma Boy's love is no different than anyone else's. Neither is yours.
Oh boy. - Dance!
My boy.
Yes, you're a good boy.
Such a good boy.
Oh, boy.
BARRY: My boy.
What you hoping for, boy or a girl?
Another boy for us?
My boy, my boy!

News and current affairs

They were like a young boy with a hammer who thinks that every problem resembles a nail.
The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right - the former because of the Fund's emphasis on fiscal rectitude and economic orthodoxy, and the latter because of its role in bailing out indebted nations.
By virtue of his unique personal history, he can bridge Africa, America, and even Asia - where he studied as a young boy in a Muslim school - thereby reviving the universal image and message of America.
For starters, the public perception that central bankers are omniscient makes them an attractive whipping boy for politicians.
JAKARTA - When I was boy, I dreamed of becoming a doctor.
Of the extended family of 14, ten were killed, including an infant, a two-year-old baby, a 10-year-old boy, and a 12-year-old girl.
Lantos knows about moral compasses: as a boy, he was rescued by Raoul Wallenberg from being deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis in Budapest.
As a psychotherapist specializing in homosexuality, I have been consulted many times by anxious parents terrified that their little boy is gay (at age five!): he likes to play with dolls, enjoys the company of girls, refuses to play soccer.
In the 1990s, Saddam Hussein replaced this poster boy.
Even at Japan's world-beating export firms, reluctance to confront the ingrained interests of the old-boy network has made it difficult to prune less profitable product lines - and the workers who make them.
Souleymane Abdoulaye showed the judge the sweltering underground cell where, as a boy of fourteen, he was crowded in with 72 other prisoners, only eleven of whom survived the near-starvation regimen.
Bin Qumu has a small paramilitary force training in the Bou Musafir forest on the outskirts of Derna. He insists that if the head of the boy scouts or the city's clan leaders asked him to disband the training camp, he would do so.
In October, hundreds of millions of people all over the world learned about a one-year-old boy from Malawi called David.
Was it good for the boy, people asked, to be separated from his father?
Unlike Hemingway's character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy.
Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital - while being chased by corruption investigators! - to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy.
XX makes you a girl and XY a boy.
In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.
Ayman is a soft-spoken 14-year-old boy in Jabalia City, Gaza.
Kim Jong-il is a naughty boy who wants attention and incentives to behave decently.
We know that a Serb truck driver rescued a boy who survived a firing squad and, crying for his father, crawled from a twisted scrum of bodies.
It is said to be an excellent chronicle of the court's day-to-day goings-on, revealing, for example, that the emperor celebrated Christmas as a boy, that he had nose surgery in his youth, and how often he met with whom.
When I was a boy, Christmas arrived on its eve, December 24.