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mama's boy

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Definition of mama's boy

as in boy

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Recent Examples of mama's boy After five seasons as mama's boy Buster Bluth, Hale won two Emmys as Veep's haplessly devoted Gary Walsh, assistant to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's amoral VP Selina Meyer. — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 This is not being a mama's boy, this is being a good and moral human being. — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024 Before that day, the chipper 23-year-old was known as a mama's boy. — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 3 June 2020 Both huge mama's boys, doing any and everything for our mothers. — Trey Moses, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2017 Aiken credits his character to his mother, calling himself a mama's boy even now. — Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014

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Noun

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was first published in 1876 and is all about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the 1840s and who is constantly getting into sticky situations.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
Mario Lopez While Mario Lopez’s boys were getting ready for their first day of school, big sister Gia was still enjoying her summer break.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of boy

Noun

The 34-year-old gave birth there to all three kids, Levi, 5, Elijah, 3, and Rae, who turns 1 in September.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Just as many people can’t afford to have someone else clean their homes, landscape their yards or nanny their kids, those struggling to make ends meet may need to lean on AI assistance.

— Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of kid

Noun

But as is the case for a lot of young talent in the soccer industry, the teenager quickly became a commodity.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Kloie attended Centennial High School in Bakersfield, and the school’s softball team paid tribute to the late teenager on social media.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of teenager

Noun

The kiddos, their coaches and their families get to spend some time with the big leaguers … and then watch the game in an unusually intimate setting.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The campaign teaches the kiddos that mayors in purple tails and top hats are not always the big bads to the animal kingdom.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of kiddo

Noun

One adolescent possibly had contact with the bat, officials said.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026
YouTube comedian Bo Burnham directs this empathetic portrait of Kayla (Elsie Fisher), an insecure adolescent who posts motivational vlogs on YouTube while privately struggling with her self-image and burgeoning sexuality.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

Definition of adolescent

Noun

He was only getting started, but people could already see the natural ability that the youngster believed would one day take him to the top.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The car turns onto a dark road that, to the youngsters’ growing unease, appears to stretch on forever through an infinite forest.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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