boy n.2
1. a hump on a person’s back; thus him and his boy, a hunchback [the hunchback is seen as carrying a small child].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. Dict. 95: Boy, a hump on a man’s back. In low circles it is usual to speak of a humpbacked man as two persons – ‘him and his boy’. |
2. champagne [allegedly f. Edward VII’s habit of merely saying ‘Boy!’ to an attendant page who automatically brought him a glass of that wine; note Binstead, A Pink ’Un and a Pelican (1898) (the context is 1879): ‘The young bucks of the present day, by the way, generally allude to a bottle of champagne erroneously as “the Boy,” in evident ignorance of the origin of the term, which is as follows: At a shooting party of His Royal Highness’s, the guns were followed at a distance by a lad who wheeled a barrow-load of champagne, packed in ice. The weather was intensely close and muggy, and whenever anybody felt inclined for a drink he called out “Boy!” to the youth in attendance; the frequency with which this happened leading to the adoption of the term. It does not follow, however, that everybody who uses the word nowadays was out shooting that day with the Prince.’].
| ‘The fine young London Gentleman’ in Punch LXXXII 69/2: He’ll nothing drink but B. and S., and big magnums of the boy. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 2 Feb. 2/4: The Prince of Wales refers to champagne as ‘the boy’. He would probably speak of Jersey Lightning as ‘the old man eloquent’. | |
| Sporting Times 1 Mar. 1/4: The principal witness in the case of the British ‘boy’ which was lately before the courts was Mr. Corke. [...] The defender of home-made champagne was Mr. Goldberg. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 31 May 2/3: To drink herself silly / With creme de chantilly / And a magnum or two of ‘The Boy!’. | |
| Society Snapshots 74: What’s the matter, Daddles? — feel queer? . . . Nothing wrong with the ‘boy,’ is it? | |
| Sure 132: ‘I likes a spill as well — as well as I like a glass of de boy’. | |
| Illus. Police News 30 Dec. 6/4: To each dear little joy, you stand magnums of ‘Boy,’ / Which is slang, you must know, for champagne. | |
| Sporting Times 4 Feb. 1/1: One of the infernal nuisances of getting old is giving up champagne. But it is an old story—the old man is beaten by the boy. | |
| Harry The Cockney 274: We opened the ball, as a rule, with a pint of the ‘boy’. |
3. the penis.
| Sheaves from an Old Escritoire 70: [She] gave me a shy little kiss [...] Oh! delightful! it made the boy still more proud; in fact he began to throb with delight [...] Still holding my boy she pulled the foreskin backwards and forwards a few times. | |
| Water from a Bucket 114: Reading Jung [...] ‘The vulgar designation of penis as ‘boy’ was remarked upon by Grimm and others.’ Which makes me want to look at my ‘boy’ at least [Simes:DLSS]. |
4. in homosexual senses.
(a) (gay) a male homosexual, esp. if flamboyant or a prostitute.
 | Prancing Nigger 108: City life, what had it done for any of them, after all? Edna a harlot (since she had left them there was no other word), and Charlie fast going to pieces, having joined the Promenade of a notorious Bar with its bright galaxy of boys [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Gilt Kid 109: One of the boys [...] swayed gracefully across the room to the Gilt Kid. .. The Gilt Kid was not particularly anxious to make friends with all the irons in London. | |
| ‘Hotel Sl.’ in AS XIV:3 Oct. 239/2: boy [...] male homosexual. | |
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
| At the Cross 24: [T]he woman said ‘You on the game?’ I stood stupidly looking at her then she said softly ‘Are you one of the boys?’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| (ref. to 1930s) Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 5: boy (n.): A male homosexual or bellhop, especially if a prostitute or available to male patrons of the hotel. (Hotel slang, ca. Los Angeles, 1939.). | |
| Rushes (1981) 56: Gatherings brightened or rendered even more desolating by an occasional, quite often discreetly bought, ‘boy’. | |
| Fairyland 133: ‘Feel free and easy with me, love, I much prefer renting to the boys, they’re tidier’ [Simes:DLSS]. |
(b) (US prison) a gay prison inmate, esp. when the passive partner in a relationship with an otherwise heterosexual convict.
| Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 307: The chief cook drops in to visit ‘his’ boy. | |
| ‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 (1933) 24/2: BOY. Catamite. | |
| in Gaddis & Long Panzram 58: The cops took my gun belt but left me my boy. We were both sent to the county road gang at Rusk, Texas. [...] The boss-man’s name was Mr Tate. He took my boy to sleep in his tent. | |
| Prison Days & Nights 151: [W]hen a man is seen giving a fellow convict some candy or a package of cigarettes, it is considered humor of the highest order to ask, ‘Is he your “boy”?’ or ‘You must be sleeping with him!’. | |
| Scottsboro Boy 96: John Peasley kept carrying on with my boy. He tried to take him away from me. Bought him whisky, tried to talk him out of me [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| In For Life 101: Why don’t you get yourself a boy and settle down? | |
| Sex in Prison 94: If a young prisoner is forced into a homosexual relationship, he may known as a ‘gal-boy’, ‘kid’, ‘punk kid’, or simply ‘boy’ . | |
| in Male Rape 16: ‘I know situations where staff got involved in overt homosexual relationships with “boys” and even owned them’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Outside In I ii: Not me boy. No way. | |
| Inside Time 147: ‘That old queen..is happy enough in here with all the boy bum he can use’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 174: They even competed for control of gay men — whom they called ‘boys’. |
(c) (US gay) in sado-masochistic sex, the passive or subservient partner.
| Rebecca’s Dict. of Queer Sl. 🌐 boy — 1) a butch or male submissive or bottom, frequently one who role-plays as young 2) a boyish butch lesbian. |
5. in drug uses.
(a) heroin [the image of heroin as a ‘masculine’ drug, i.e. one that ‘knocks you down’, rather than cocaine or girl n.2 (1), the injecting of which gives a sexual thrill (although heroin, too, has that effect on some users)].
| ‘Narcotic Argot Along the Mexican Border’ in AS XXX:2 86: BOY, n. Heroin, as opposed to girl, cocaine, and Dona Juanita, marijuana. | |
| Scene (1996) 60: Boy is the junkie’s name for heroin; they call cocaine girl because it gives ’em a sexual jab when they take a shot. | |
| Patrolman 167: Whether you call it horse [...] boy, Harry, or Scot, it’s still heroin. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 172: Several terms were used to characterize heroin – H, skag, boy, horse, stuff. | |
| Homeboy 18: It’s no coincidence that cocaine and heroin are called boy and girl on the street. | |
| Another Day in Paradise 238: Got cash, boy and girl. It’s yours. | |
| No Lights, No Sirens 104: They would be used to mule the boy from the bagging plants and drop the heroin to prearranged spots where Cho’s steerers could deliver it to him on his spot when he needed to be re-upped. | |
| (con. 2011) in We Own This City 100: Jaime texted a man named Kenneth Diggins [...] ‘Got any boy?’ she wrote, using slang for heroin. ‘Let me get some boy off you.’. |
(b) cocaine [may be a misreading].
| cited in Sl. and Jargon of Drugs and Drink (1986). | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 4: Boy — Cocaine. |
6. (UK juv.) the police [? abbr. blue boy n.2 (1)].
| ‘LA Leakers Freestyle’ 🎵 You say ‘The feds just done a sweep’ We say, ‘The boy dem run in my gaff’. |
In compounds
see separate entry.
In phrases
(drugs) a surreptitious request for heroin.
| ‘Teen-age Hophead Jargon’ AS XXVII:1 25: DO YOU NEED A BOY? phr. Have you any drugs for sale? |
(Aus.) to have male homosexual sex.
| letter in S.J. Baker papers MLMSS 165: Box 4, Bundle 1, File 3: Put a boy in your office = have homosexual relations. | |
| in DAUS 23/2: boy, put a — on To enjoy success in amatory affairs. ‘Getting any?’ ‘I’ve had to put a boy on’. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a boy who exists simply as a sex object for his homosexual partners.
| ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants. | |
| Naked Lunch (1968) 101: ‘I was young once and heard the siren call of easy money and women and tight boy-ass...’. | |
| Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 5: boy-ass (n.): Generic for boy or young man who is the sexual object of a pedicator (pederast). | |
| Some of My Best Friends 61: Don’t get hung up on a piece of boy-ass. So you sucked him off and you loved it. So what? [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Q&A 150: Mauricio says the men will not stay on the boat with Roger, that he wants to bring his boy-ass aboard. | |
| Filth 147: The manager sure knew how to treat boy ass. After he finished with me, two other blacks took over, one at each end [Simes:DLSS]. |
(US) a bar primarily used by male homosexuals.
| Man Who Was Norris (2014) 26: [B]oth cruised the gay boy-bars with which [Berlin] abounded. | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 270: The he ups and brains some butt-rustler in a goddam boy bar. |
see blue boy n.2
(Aus.) a man, esp. a prisoner, who specializes in seducing young men.
| Argot in DAUS (1993). |
a general term of affection between males; a man who acts like a child.
| Awake and Sing! II i: Don’t cry, boychick. | |
| (con. 1910s) Hoods (1953) 16: Pleased to meet up with you boytchicks. | |
| Time Remembered (1985) 114: Don’t get upset with me, boychick. | |
| Cannibals 103: Okey-dokey, boychik. | |
| New Yorker 7 Mar. 94: Reggie shouldn’t have had to be the bouncing boychick even in his dealings with his wife. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 221: Go home, boychiks. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 22: Ruby yukked. Boychik — you slay me. | |
| Widespread Panic 184: Bob signed off, per usual, L’chaim, boychik. |
(US gay) a young male homosexual considered as a sex object; the anus or buttocks of such a person.
| Streetwise and Horny 53: He pulled the muscular cheeks apart, feeling his way inward and resting his finger-tips on the quivering boy-cunt [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Flesh 104: ‘I don’t like being called a faggot.’ ‘Well, that’s what you are—a queer, a pansy, a fruit, a cocksucker, a boy-cunt’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Handjobs (CA) July 56: His tight brown boy-cunt winked at me from between the soft pink mounds of his ass cheeks [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Revolutionary 170: ‘Good little boy-cunt. Fuck his little ass! Fuck ’im!’ [Simes:DLSS]. |
(US gay) a boyish ‘masculine’ lesbian.
| Rebecca’s Dict. of Queer Sl. 🌐 boydyke — a boyish butch lesbian. |
a school; thus boy-farmer, a school-teacher.
| News from Nowhere (2008) 26: I had best say nothing about the boy-farms which I had been used to call schools . | |
| Daily Chronicle 16 Sept. 2/6: The professional boy-farmers [...] are naturally trying to supply what is desired . |
1. (US) a term of address between men, rarely affectionate.
| Playback 196: Listen boy friend, I’m a pretty big man in this town. |
2. a term of address bewteen homosexual men.
| Line of Beauty 75: ‘Well,’ said Nick, finally, ‘where do you want to go?’ ‘I don't know, boyfriend,’ Leo said. |
3. (US campus) any attractive man one does not know.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 2: boyfriend – good-looking male one has never seen before: ‘Where did that guy come from – he’s a boyfriend.’. |
(gay) one who indulges in sex with under-age male partners.
| Broken Arse 31: Weazel reads the note. It’s about Henry Bligh—and it says he’s been a boy-fucker, I think [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Little Ice Cream Boy [ebook] ‘You know what you are?’ George shook his head. Barney said: ‘A fucking boy-fucker!’ ‘Yes,’ Willem agreed, ‘a boy-fucker!’ George shook his head [Simes:DLSS]. |
see boy-girl n.1
see separate entry.
(US) ‘A young man or young men considered as objects of sexual gratification; sexual activity with young men’ Simes (2018).
| Carlotta McBride 33: [A] notice [...] had been scraped with a knife into the dirty plaster: If you like boy-hump I am the one for you [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Hollywood Switch-Hitters 96: [S]he also saw a trained gorilla fuck a piece of boy-hump in the ass [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Bath Buddy 116: He was a tight-lipped fucker of boy hump [Simes:DLSS]. |
a teller of secrets.
| Life and Times of James Catnach 329: There was a street-saying much in vogue, of ‘That Boy Jones again’, which was used to cover or account for all petty delinquencies in public or domestic life. | |
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |
(gay) semen.
| Long Time Coming 146: the head strained and expanded, convulsed, and the first glittering jet of boy-juice shot high in the air [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| When I was 18 66: Howie gagged once but eagerly drank in Carlos’ boy-juice [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Handjobs (CA) May 15: [S]ddenly my mouth was full of boy-juice [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| www.advancedmasturbation 31 Oct. 🌐 I’m [...] sucking my boy juice off my fingers [Simes:DLSS]. |
(US gay) young homosexual men considered as sex objects; thus their penis.
| Hairport 120: [...] feeling the boy-meat begin to stiffen [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Cum 153: I began to gobble a nice of piece of boy-meat [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Born of Man 188: There must have been a premium on boy-meat after all the cleaning up he’d [i.e. a police detective] been doing [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| White Collar Tales (NJ) June 108/1: Lee and Fong knelt ddirectly in front of the two, kissing, licking, and sucking on their boymeat [Simes:DLSS]. |
(US gay) young homosexual men considered as sex objects; thus their anus.
| Mantalk (NJ) Nov. 120/1: I inserted one finger up his boy-pussy hole [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Cherry Boys (N.J.) Jan. 22/1: This boy-pussy was hot and ready [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Rudeboy Chain 221: ‘Come on let’s get some pussy. Boy pussy for Connery’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
| Low Road 135: All of them claimed that they reserved ‘boy pussy’ for sea voyages [Simes:DLSS]. |
a daredevil young car-driver; the term implies disdain for such puerile antics.
| Guardian 14 Feb. 🌐 Ask the average road user what image is conjured up by the phrase ‘boy racer’ and they are likely to describe a strutting adolescent driving an Escort XR3i, with spoilers, yellow foglights and extra bass speakers, who practises handbrake turns in the local car park. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 212: [of a VW Corrado] ’Tis what ye might call popular with a certain section of the community.’ ‘Fucking boy racers.’. | |
| Insidious Intent (2018) 92: [T]he perfect drag strip for boy racers to burn rubber in their pimped-out hatchbacks, the roar of their phat exhausts splitting skulls. |
(US teen) a policeman.
| Summerfield Sun (KS) 9 Jan. 2/3: Teen Talk Glossary [...] Boy scout — Policeman. |
(bingo) the number 16.
| DSUE (8th edn) 127/2: since ca. 1955. |
(Aus. prison) a prison which abounds in petty rules.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Boy’s gaol [...] used derisively by experienced prisoners in describing prisons where the regime is seen to be petty. |
(US) gay sex.
| Way Past Cool 34: That one night when they’d tried boy stuff together. |
see boychick
1. (US gay) the penis.
| (ref. to 1950s) Queens’ Vernacular 48: the penis [...] boy toy (’50s, especially when manipulated by a masturbator). | |
| Size Tales (N.J.) Aug. 45: Toys—cocks, dicks, boy-toys—were what this entire life revolved around. The bigger the toy, the greater his fascination [Simes:DLSS]. |
2. see toy boy under toy n.1
In phrases
1. (Irish) stew, the food [rhy. sl.].
| Und. Speaks 12/1: Boy in blue, a tasteful stew. | |
| ‘“Aus.” Rhyming Argot’ in AS XIX:3. |
2. see boys in blue n.
the clitoris.
| [ | | Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 24: An Anster Sentiment — A tiny Boat with a Prow of perfect Ruby; whose shape assumes, in swell and concavity, a single Pearl]. |
| Sl. of Venery I 22: Boy in the Boat — The clitoris. | |
| ‘The Boy in the Boat’ in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 176: Lift up your skirt, gal, an’ gimme a breeze, / What am I gonna do with all this cheese? / The Boy in the Boat! The Boy in the Boat! | |
| ‘The Boy in the Boat’ 🎵 Face is still wrinkled, and his breath smells like soap, / Still talkin’ ’bout that boy in the boat. | |
| Argot in Simes DAUS 23: Boy in the boat, the clitoris. | |
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 131: Boy in the boat (clitoris, button, dot joy buzzer, cockpit). | |
| (con. 1910s) Livin’ the Blues 36: At an early age we talked about a ‘purr-tongue’ or a ‘boy-in-the-boat’. |
a thug, a hoodlum.
| Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 7: The Buffers, both boys of the Holy Ground [...] It is almost needless to add that the Holy Ground, or Land, is a well-known region of St. Giles’s. |
(Anglo-Irish) the joker in a pack of cards.
| DSUE (1984) 127/2: late C.19–20. |
In exclamations
(US) a mild excl.
| Adventures of a Boomer Op. 11: Boy Howdy, he had lost all the religion he ever did have. | |
| ‘Art for Artie’ in Argosy All-Story 30 Dec. 🌐 Boy, howdy! The titles alone would have made you seasick! | |
| Night Dogs 331: ‘God damn,’ he said aloud, the tension going. ‘Boy howdy’. | |
| Gutshot Straight [ebook] Shake gazed at the car with the admiration he usually reserved for a bowl of homemade gumbo. ‘Boy howdy,’ he said. |