Word.ws English Dictionary

corner boy

corner boy noun: a young man who hangs around on street corners.

Noun

corner boy (plural corner boys)

  1. (Ireland, US) A young man who hangs around on street corners.
    • Got no time for the corner boys / Down in the street making all that noise.1980, Tom Waits, Jersey Girl

Forms of corner boy

pluralcorner boys
alternative formcornerboy

Questions about corner boy

What does corner boy mean?
Corner boy means a young man who hangs around on street corners.
What part of speech is corner boy?
Corner boy is a noun.
What is the plural of corner boy?
The plural of corner boy is corner boys.

Words near corner boy in the dictionary

  1. corneously
  2. corneousness
  3. corner
  4. corner bath
  5. corner baths
  6. corner boy
  7. corner boys
  8. corner bracket
  9. corner brackets
  10. Corner Brook
  11. corner case

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corner boy (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “corner boy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/corner_boy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.