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boy

noun

ˈbȯi

Definition of boy

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a male person who has not yet reached adulthood a giggling little boy ran by

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a male romantic companion their teenaged daughter has a new boy, and she's just crazy about him

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Recent Examples of boy In Jennifer’s Body, Needy (Seyfried) is BFFs with the titular mean girl played by Fox, whose body becomes possessed by a succubus with a taste for teen boys after a botched sacrifice by a devil-worshipping boy band (led by Adam Brody). — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026 Last year, the company dipped its toes into the live events world, serving as the promoter for boy group P1Harmony’s tour — the boy group is slated to perform Saturday at 82World. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 Seventy-seven percent of the teen girls and 51 percent of the teen boys reported wearing fragrance every day. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Three boys, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher were killed. — Tom Winter, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boy

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Everyone thinks their kids’ slang is ridiculous and their parents’ politics naive.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Mitt reminds me of these famous sports dads — Earl Woods, Richard Williams, Marv Marinovich — who put a golf club or tennis racket or football in their kids’ cribs.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

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An ex-boyfriend, now platonic pal (Eric Lynch) at the (fictional) Chicago Herald offers her an assignment of profiling a Bears superfan, Darlene Donnelly (Marsha Mason).

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Jordan’s mother, after being killed by her boyfriend and stuffed in a duffel bag, had been funeralized at Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of boyfriend

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Instead of crossing over into the afterlife, Billy, the magically inclined twin, transferred his soul into the body of William Kaplan, a teenager who had just been involved in a fatal car crash.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Cologne police spokesman Christoph Bermel said the two male teenagers have not been charged but are considered suspects, and investigators were examining whether the robot's movements were preprogrammed or controlled in real time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

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Just as Annette Badland teased to Deadline, Mae’s shares come in clutch from beyond the grave at the Bi-Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, only attended by the three lads from the pub.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
Former player and local lad Alex Mortimer was appointed manager, with Rhodri Giggs, brother of Manchester United legend Ryan, as his assistant.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of lad

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Ariel Gutiérrez’s intimate coming-of-age drama examines how sudden loss can force an adolescent to confront fear, responsibility and the possibility of rebuilding a life after trauma.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Getty An island that had spent decades pairing glamour with license was perhaps the wrong place to entrust an adolescent to unusually permissive relatives.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of adolescent

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The prosecutor argued the beatings basically never stopped, claiming footage showed nannies beating one child, then turning their violence toward any of the other toddlers who wept while watching.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
The toddler finding marks the third time in 18 months that a different research community reached the same conclusion.

— Charles Yeomans, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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