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boy-love

boy-love is the alternative form of boylove.

Meaning of boylove

Noun

boylove (uncountable)

  1. (euphemistic) Paedophilic, hebephilic, or ephebophilic attraction to boys.
    • In another offering, Better Life Monthly was advertised as a "paper with articles, photos, poems, etc. relating to the subject of boylove."1977, Sexual Exploitation of Children

Questions about boy-love

What is boy-love the alternative form of?
Boy-love is the alternative form of boylove.

Words near boy-love in the dictionary

  1. boy-friends
  2. boy-girl
  3. boy-girls
  4. boy-kisser
  5. boy-kissers
  6. boy-love
  7. boy-lover
  8. boy-short
  9. boy-shorts
  10. boy-toy
  11. boy-toys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boy-love (page history and authors); boylove (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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