<noun.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
<noun.person> he likes to play golf with the boys
a male human offspring
<noun.person> their son became a famous judge his boy is taller than he is
(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
<noun.person> get out of my way, boy
Boy \Boy\, n. [Cf. D. boef, Fries. boi, boy; akin to G. bube, Icel. bofi rouge.] 1. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.
My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. --Sir W. Scott.
Note: Boy is often used as a term of comradeship, as in college, or in the army or navy. In the plural used colloquially of members of an associaton, fraternity, or party.
2. In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; -- considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used. [derog.]
He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown. --Frances Macnab. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Boy bishop}, 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.
{The Old Boy}, the Devil. [Slang]
{Yellow boys}, guineas. [Slang, Eng.]
{Boy's love}, a popular English name of Southernwood ({Artemisia abrotonum}); -- called also {lad's love}.
Boy \Boy\, v. t. To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. --Shak.
The little blonde boy with a dirt-smudged face was blinking and calm when placed on a gurney and wheeled to a waiting ambulance.
At his height he was one of the closest allies of Baroness Thatcher, the former prime minister. He was the epitome of a Thatcherite minister, a grammar-school boy who worked his way to the top.
In the Fruitport case, the boy admitted he threatened to cut his victims' heads off with a sword or lock them in the bathroom if they told their parents, said Juvenile Court caseworker Debra Jensen.
BBC1's tabloid telly series 999 (9.30) which shows films or reconstructions of heroic rescues today screens an amateur video record of the boy who fell into the gorilla pit at London Zoo.
"I want to keep all the hope I can," said Town Marshal Elmo Gatlin earlier when asked of the little boy's chances.
I didn't try to hit the boy.
A guard at the Sears department store that anchors one end of the mall said guards from the store chased the boy after Monday evening's shooting, but he escaped.
A 16-month-old boy strapped into a car seat was mauled to death by a 200-pound leopard that escaped from its cage at the family's farm, authorities said.
More than a half dozen tornadoes accompanying the hurricane hit the Brownsville area today in advance of the center of the storm, blowing over at least two homes and injuring one person, a boy who suffered a minor head wound.
"Productivity was terrible," and "boy, did they sock it to us" on wages.
Perhaps a new poster boy should be recruited.
A teen-age boy is propelled by a surge in the crowd toward a young, frightened-looking policeman.
It is not known if the boy has been tested for the virus. Lawyers say they are bound by state law not to discuss the case outside the courtroom.
Police stormed a car today in which a woman held her 15-month-old son hostage at knife-point for over 13 hours, rescuing the boy and arresting his mother, officials said.
Three dogs who accompanied a 3-year-old boy on a "pretend" fishing trip probably saved the child's life when he was lost in a forest for two days and nights, an emergency room physician said.
I don't think it's our error, though." Neither the boy nor his family has a copy of his birth certificate.
Police said one person was killed and five people, including a 6-year-old boy, were wounded by sniper fire between Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia and Gen.
Even the vintage car stand had failed to pull a crowd - except for the small boy who had wanted to know if the vehicle's owner had had the thing from new.
The race will start on Sept. 11 when a boy and a girl from each participating country or territory runs through the streets of New York to the steps of the United Nations to give the signal for the worldwide series of raod races to begin.
'I do not see how kidnapping a boy of 16 serves the cause of Islam or of Kashmiris,' he wrote in a letter to Mr Syed Salahuddin, leader of Kashmir's fundamentalist Hizb-ul Mujahideen group.
Two other Palestinians died in explosions in the West Bank, including a 12-year-old boy who picked up an unidentified object that blew up, the army said.
The boy who escaped, and one of the eight children held hostage, were both family friends, while the other seven children were Dang's children, authorities said.
The boy was in a 2-by-2-foot compartment in the car, which had been loaned to his family by a friend, Chandler said.
Police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old boy who was fatally shot when a friend fired a shotgun as the two were playing cowboys and Indians at the 9-year-old's home.
Plum positions are still allocated on an old boy network; former communists get their disproportionate share.
His case seemed similar to that of a hearing impaired boy found wandering the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, earlier this year. That child eventually was reunited with his mother in Mexico.
Police say Linares, 23, held off hospital workers at gunpoint, unhooked his son's respirator and cradled the boy until he died.
Social workers and officials are accused of gross negligence in ignoring evidence the boy was being brutally victimized.
A 5-year-old boy who was hit by cars twice in three months at the same place has died from injuries suffered in the second accident, authorities said.
The boy refused to testify Wednesday even after a special state prosecutor assured the boy's attorney he would not be indicted.