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the boys

the boys noun: the speaker's group of male friends. This phrase is often put after "me and" if the speaker is referring to themselves and their friends.

Noun

the boys pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only, slang) The speaker's group of male friends. This phrase is often put after "me and" if the speaker is referring to themselves and their friends.
    • Me and the boys are gonna go hang out for a bit.
    • I realized, as one of them was explaining to me the details of his targets’ security routines, that intercepted nudes were a kind of informal office currency, because his buddy kept spinning in his chair to interrupt us with a smile, saying, “Check her out,” to which my instructor would invariably...2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN

Questions about the boys

What does the boys mean?
The boys means the speaker's group of male friends. This phrase is often put after "me and" if the speaker is referring to themselves and their friends.
What part of speech is the boys?
The boys is a noun.

Words near the boys in the dictionary

  1. The Boot
  2. the boot is on the other foot
  3. The Bottom
  4. the box they're going to bury it in
  5. the boxes they're going to bury them in
  6. the boys
  7. The Branch
  8. the breath of life
  9. the bride at every wedding
  10. the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
  11. the British are coming

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