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rentboy

rentboy is the alternative form of rent boy.

Meaning of rent boy

Noun

rent boy (plural rent boys)

  1. (UK, informal) A male prostitute, typically young and gay.
    • Francis Urquhart: Got anything on him?
      Tim Stamper: There was a whiff of scandal about ten years ago.
      Francis Urquhart: Rent boy. In a train. To Red Hill. Yes. Wanted to sell his story but we bought it and hushed him up. Be ungentlemanly to bring that up. A man's private life should be private.
      Tim...1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 4

Forms of rentboy

pluralrentboys

Questions about rentboy

What is rentboy the alternative form of?
Rentboy is the alternative form of rent boy.

Words near rentboy in the dictionary

  1. rentallers
  2. rentals
  3. Rentas
  4. rentback
  5. rentbacks
  6. rentboy
  7. rentboys
  8. rentcharge
  9. rentchargee
  10. rentchargees
  11. rentcharger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rentboy (page history and authors); rent 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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