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ONE OF THE BOYS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does one of the boys mean?
• ONE OF THE BOYS (noun)
The noun ONE OF THE BOYS has 1 sense:
1. a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men
Familiarity information: ONE OF THE BOYS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
he quickly became one of the boys
Hypernyms ("one of the boys" is a kind of...):
boy (a friendly informal reference to a grown man)
Context examples
"Your deer are much prettier than our ugly buffaloes," she said, turning to the prairies for help and feeling glad that she had read one of the boys' books in which Jo delighted.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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