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cornerboy

cornerboy is the alternative form of corner boy.

Meaning of corner boy

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 cornerboy

pluralcornerboys

Questions about cornerboy

What is cornerboy the alternative form of?
Cornerboy is the alternative form of corner boy.

Words near cornerboy in the dictionary

  1. cornerbacking
  2. cornerbacks
  3. cornerball
  4. cornerboard
  5. cornerboards
  6. cornerboy
  7. cornerboys
  8. cornercap
  9. cornercaps
  10. cornered
  11. cornered the market

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornerboy (page history and authors); 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.

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