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A male human offspring. A young man.

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Usage examples (35)
  • The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
  • The baby was a boy
  • She made the boy brush his teeth every night
  • Get out of my way, boy
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  • After falling out of the boat, the boy (male child) clung to the buoy (device to warn ships of danger).
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