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Old Boy

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Noun

1. old boy, old man

a familiar term of address for a man

2. old boy

a vivacious elderly man

3. old boy

a former male pupil of a school

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Old Boy

see synonyms of old boy
noun
1. (sometimes capitals) British
a male ex-pupil of a school
2. informal, mainly British
a. 
a familiar name used to refer to a man
b. 
an old man

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Old Boy

see synonyms of old boy
1.  [sometimes O- B-] Chiefly British, Informal
an alumnus, esp. of a boys' preparatory school
2. 
a man belonging to a social, professional, etc. group regarded as prestigious or influential, whose members provide one another with assistance or preferential treatment

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Old Boy

see synonyms of old boy
n.
1. Chiefly British A graduate of a public school for boys.
2. A man who is a member of an old-boy network.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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