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  • With Schiller's input, they're hoping to add a bit of Euro flash to an area overflowing with frat-boy bars and tourist traps.

    Audarshia Townsend: One Big Year for Benjamin Schiller Audarshia Townsend 2011

  • With Schiller's input, they're hoping to add a bit of Euro flash to an area overflowing with frat-boy bars and tourist traps.

    Audarshia Townsend: One Big Year for Benjamin Schiller Audarshia Townsend 2011

  • And by the way, what kind of mooks are they dealing with here, the archetypal young, frat-boy male, or faceless henchmen?

    A Principle Ulysses 2009

  • That Yale finds itself under pressure from the government, in the face of stupid frat-boy initiation rituals obviously designed to humiliate the pledges themselves, dramatizes how far government and higher education have drifted from the principles of freedom.

    Is Yale University Sexist? Peter Berkowitz 2011

  • With a raucous mix of goofiness and frat-boy pranks, Mr. Kimmel's ABC show, which is filmed in Los Angeles, fits the fleeting attention of the pop-culture consumed Web.

    Jimmy Kimmel Walks Web Tightrope Christopher S. Stewart 2012

  • Other recent "bro" blends are a bit more macho: brogrammer (bro + programmer), "a programmer who behaves in a stereotypically frat-boy manner"; bromance (bro + romance) "a close but nonsexual relationship between two men"; and brodeo (bro + rodeo), "a social gathering primarily or exclusively of men."

    Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

  • Other standouts include Vince Nappo as the likeable Lorenzo, Ted Schneider as the hilarious corporate frat-boy Gratiano, and Jonathan Epstein as the morally-ambiguous "Merchant" Antonio.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • Other standouts include Vince Nappo as the likeable Lorenzo, Ted Schneider as the hilarious corporate frat-boy Gratiano, and Jonathan Epstein as the morally-ambiguous "Merchant" Antonio.

    Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • I know it's because he's black, but at least we are questioning things now, something we were too dumb to do before under the frat-boy president.

    Nelson expresses support for using trigger on public insurance 2009

  • Other targets include Israel, Ayn Rand, America's treatment of the Arabs positively Nazi-like, apparently and the "dunce" George W. Bush, a "smirking, bowlegged . . . frat-boy" who reduces the usually inventive Mr. Theroux to cliché.

    Stranger In a Strange Land Andrew Stuttaford 2011

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