Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male companion or friend with whom one has a sexual or romantic relationship.
- noun A male friend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
male partner in a romantic relationship. - noun A
male friend.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
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Examples
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Also, I have this sinking suspicion that the guy next to Samar is her douche of a boyfriend and RAWR MAI HAIT. *kicks loser boyfriend* I think Uncle Sandeep and her mom Sharan should have been in the cover with Samar instead.
Archive 2010-01-01 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010
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Also, I have this sinking suspicion that the guy next to Samar is her douche of a boyfriend and RAWR MAI HAIT. *kicks loser boyfriend* I think Uncle Sandeep and her mom Sharan should have been in the cover with Samar instead.
Review: Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010
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Ali had had a boyfriend, but at her age the word boyfriend rankled.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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Ali had had a boyfriend, but at her age the word boyfriend rankled.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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She said the word boyfriend as if she were saying Hitler! or Your goddamn secretary!
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009
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Sit next to your boyfriend, Ariana said, emphasizing the word boyfriend a bit so that Palmer would definitely hear.
Beautiful Disaster Kate Brian 2009
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A character using the term "boyfriend" was deemed by some fans of the show as a modern word too far on online forums.
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Perhaps we abuse the term boyfriend, using it to refer to someone we might be seeing for only six weeks or so of good old between-the-sheets fun.
Sydney Star Observer 2008
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Perhaps we abuse the term boyfriend, using it to refer to someone we might be seeing for only six weeks or so of good old between-the-sheets fun.
Sydney Star Observer 2008
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I have nt read the books and I have to say that if they had finished the episode with Elena accepting the fact that her boyfriend is a vampire I would have been seriously disappointed.
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She might not like to know, then, that there are nepo baby-adjacent figures – such as the nepo boyfriend, a man who rides on his more celebrated partner’s coattails.
‘Nepo baby’ was just the start: inside the expanding nepo universe Alaina Demopoulos 2023
Prolagus commented on the word boyfriend
Weirdnet is homophobic.
November 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word boyfriend
??
November 16, 2008
kewpid commented on the word boyfriend
Weirdnet's restrictive definition.
November 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word boyfriend
Why isn't it just "a male friend"?
November 17, 2008