Old Boy Definition

noun
An alumnus, esp. of a boys' preparatory school.
Webster's New World
A man belonging to a social, professional, etc. group regarded as prestigious or influential, whose members provide one another with assistance or preferential treatment.
Webster's New World
A man who is a member of an old-boy network.
American Heritage
(UK) Affectionate term of address for a man.
Listen, old boy, I've got some news.
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Noun

Singular:
old boy
Plural:
old boys

Old Boy Sentence Examples

  • In another case, a missing twelve year old boy turned out to be a runaway.

  • Betsy lined up two likely abductions and she was anxious to get started, Quinn had already performed his part, setting his apparatus appropriately for a rural Iowa location where a twelve year old boy had gone missing.

  • I could never be sure the old boy wouldn't have a change of heart some night and blow me away just to prove his masculinity, or send some of his Philadelphia clients around to work me over.

  • Do I detect you're not 100 percent sure the old boy drowned?

  • My first choice was to telephone the Atlanta office but I wondered if I might get a more objective hearing from an office further from a good old boy network.

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