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antiboy

antiboy adjective: opposing boys.

Adjective

antiboy (comparative more antiboy, superlative most antiboy)

  1. Opposing boys.
    • Grade-school-age boys are more antigirl than girls this age are antiboy. Boys begin to test each other. Who can run the fastest or hold their breath the longest?2005, Jean Ann Wright, Animation writing and development: from script development to pitch, page 49
    • Several years ago, some of the men from the older generation were undoubtedly nonplused to see fashionable young ladies purchasing and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with such antiboy slogans as "Boys Lie," […]2006, Dominic J. Pulera, Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America

Forms of antiboy

comparativemore antiboy
superlativemost antiboy

Origin of antiboy

From anti- + boy.

Questions about antiboy

What does antiboy mean?
Antiboy means opposing boys.
What part of speech is antiboy?
Antiboy is an adjective.

Words near antiboy in the dictionary

  1. antibounce
  2. antibound
  3. antibourgeois
  4. antibovine
  5. antiboxing
  6. antiboy
  7. antiboycott
  8. antibrachia
  9. antibrachial
  10. antibrachium
  11. antibradycardic

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