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collegeboy

collegeboy noun: a young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.

Noun

collegeboy (plural collegeboys)

  1. A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.
    • Why,you simply can’t imagine the difference between … well,a Russian student for instance and an American collegeboy. O no. It just can’t be conceived. Absolutely impossible. Why,tell me:what does the American collegeboy know?huh? Baseball!1933, E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia, Liveright, published 2007, page 326
    • Collegeboys get jobs on those Grace Line boats to South America.[…]They each passed a couple of remarks about the hot weather; then Ben Noe leaned forward with a little chuckling noise in his throat and asked Glenn, well, collegeboy, how did he like the life of a working stiff.[…]‘That’s my helper...1967, John Dos Passos, Adventures of a Young Man, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, pages 63, 76, 79, and 150

Examples of collegeboy in a sentence

  • “Hey ya, collegeboy, keepin’ it sharp?”[…]Collegeboy beams again.1994, The Alchemist Review: An Arts Magazine, pages 43 and 46:
  • White trash, another collegeboy will join in, laughing.2016, Toby Vieira, Marlow’s Landing, John Murray, →ISBN:

Forms of collegeboy

pluralcollegeboys

Origin of collegeboy

From college + boy.

Questions about collegeboy

What does collegeboy mean?
Collegeboy means a young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.
How do you use collegeboy in a sentence?
“Hey ya, collegeboy, keepin’ it sharp?”[…]Collegeboy beams again.
What part of speech is collegeboy?
Collegeboy is a noun.
What is the plural of collegeboy?
The plural of collegeboy is collegeboys.

Words near collegeboy in the dictionary

  1. college-aged
  2. college-goer
  3. college-goers
  4. college-ruled
  5. collegebound
  6. collegeboy
  7. collegeboys
  8. colleged
  9. collegegoer
  10. collegegoers
  11. collegeless

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