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Old boy   /oʊld bɔɪ/   Listen
Old boy

noun
1.
A familiar term of address for a man.  Synonym: old man.
2.
A vivacious elderly man.
3.
A former male pupil of a school.



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"Old boy" Quotes from Famous Books



... you, Wig, old boy!" somebody shouted, just as the E in SAFE shot up. And I knew what it meant—it meant that the words Roy is safe had been printed in great big black ...
— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... crowded us out of number two with a bright little paper on the "Humours of Cricket," and the Head himself was profusely thoughtful all over the editorial under the heading of "The School Chapel; and How it Seems to an Old Boy." ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

... come away from Mont Blanc to see it," said Flemming, lowering the glass. "When I had my nose against it at Chamouni I didn't see it at all. It overhung me and smothered me. Old boy"—reaching up his hand to Lynde who was leaning on the back of the chair—"who would ever have thought that we two"—Flemming stopped short and looked earnestly into his comrade's face. "Why, Ned, I didn't notice how thin and pale you are. ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... will, saying that if anything should happen to him, and the estates should be altogether lost, the money and proceeds of the jewels were to be divided equally among his children. You must have gone through a great deal, old boy. You are scarcely nineteen, and you look two ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... know Quin's aunt, Lady Bounce, do you? She's the dearest old soul, and she loves a theatre. Night-night, old boy; don't keep Doris too long near the canal, in case you are taken with my inclination"; and she went gaily ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page


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