Word.ws English Dictionary

friend-boy

friend-boy is the alternative form of friendboy.

Meaning of friendboy

Noun

friendboy (plural friendboys)

  1. (colloquial) A male friend, as opposed to a boyfriend or lover.
    • "Surprised, Lifee asked, "She has a friendboy?"1998, J. California Cooper, The Wake of the Wind - A Novel, page 176
  2. (colloquial) A boyfriend, although of less intensity.

Forms of friend-boy

pluralfriend-boys

Questions about friend-boy

What is friend-boy the alternative form of?
Friend-boy is the alternative form of friendboy.

Words near friend-boy in the dictionary

  1. friend zoned
  2. friend zonee
  3. friend zonees
  4. friend zones
  5. friend zoning
  6. friend-boy
  7. friend-boys
  8. friend-in-law
  9. friend-o
  10. friend-os
  11. friend-shaped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: friend-boy (page history and authors); friendboy (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: “friend-boy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/friend-boy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.