"collegeboy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: collegeboys [plural]
Etymology: From college + boy. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|college|boy}} college + boy Head templates: {{en-noun}} collegeboy (plural collegeboys)
  1. A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.
    Sense id: en-collegeboy-en-noun-lZgummMc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1933, E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia, Liveright, published 2007, page 326",
          "text": "Why,you simply can’t imagine the difference between … well,a Russian student for instance and an American collegeboy. O no. It just can’t be conceived. Absolutely impossible. Why,tell me:what does the American collegeboy know?huh? Baseball!",
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          "ref": "1967, John Dos Passos, Adventures of a Young Man, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, pages 63, 76, 79, and 150",
          "text": "Collegeboys get jobs on those Grace Line boats to South America.[…]They each passed a couple of remarks about the hot weather; then Ben Noe leaned forward with a little chuckling noise in his throat and asked Glenn, well, collegeboy, how did he like the life of a working stiff.[…]‘That’s my helper, Spike, he’s a good worker even if he is a collegeboy.’[…]All the girls were crazy to meet Glenn, collegeboys from eastern colleges were rare in these parts;",
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          "ref": "2016, Toby Vieira, Marlow’s Landing, John Murray",
          "text": "The collegeboys will laugh. Jeez man, one of them might say, a smug overgrown teenager with an Astros cap, what a freak. White trash, another collegeboy will join in, laughing.",
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