boy-girl
boy-girl noun: someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.
Noun
boy-girl (plural boy-girls)
- Someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.
- Baudelaire is uninterested in boy-girls or transvestites. His androgynes must be voluptuously female in body contour.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
Adjective
boy-girl (not comparable)
- Characterized by stereotypical romantic relationships between young people.
- And then one reviewer said that it was your average boy-girl song and the writer didn't understand why people were making such a big deal out of it.2006, American Songwriter Magazine: Song: The World's Best Songwriters on Creating the Music That Moves Us
- If the coffeehouse beatnik scene was too limited in its appeal to become a significant cinematic attraction (not enough boy-girl romantic action), it still gave rise to a number of film scenarios […]2015, Peter Stanfield, The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
Forms of boy-girl
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Questions about boy-girl
- What does boy-girl mean?
- Boy-girl means someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.
- What part of speech is boy-girl?
- Boy-girl can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of boy-girl?
- The plural of boy-girl is boy-girls.
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