boy band

noun

: a small ensemble of males in their teens or twenties who play pop songs geared especially to a young female audience

Examples of boy band in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The South Korean boy band returns to the summit of the Billboard 200 this time around with yet another collection as This & That arrives. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

The Jonas Brothers are returning to Pittsburgh later this year, paying homage to a tour that helped define the pop-rock boy band during the late 2000s. — Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

The winners—Jungwon, Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo, and Ni-ki—were officially launched as the Enhypen boy band. — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

Young artists like the members of the Chilean boy band Q_ARE are fusing these elements with Latin music styles, Spanish and English lyrics and Chilean slang to pioneer a uniquely Latino pop subgenre. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1985, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for boy band

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand