bad boy

noun

: a person who flouts convention

a literary bad boy

Examples of bad boy in a Sentence

He has become known as the bad boy of the American television industry.

Recent Examples on the Web

Luckily for all parties involved, these bad boys have been in the storage shed outside Sanford Stadium presumably since the bus parked on the ride back from this game 15 years ago. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026

What a movie star needs (among other qualities) is anger, and Sessa plays Tony as an eager, voluble, simmering bad boy who is playing out his inner turmoil in the real world. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 July 2026

Lastly, Mark Salling, who played the series’ bad boy Puck, died of an apparent suicide at 35 in 2018. — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 25 July 2026

These bad boys are the new in-demand stage prop at concerts, with more and more musicians incorporating the piece of furniture into their set — from Lily Allen to Charli XCX to Hilary Duff. — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bad boy

• ahoy
• alloy
• annoy
• carboy
• convoy
• cowboy
• decoy
• deploy
• destroy
• employ
• employe
• enjoy