"cornerboy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cornerboys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cornerboy (plural cornerboys)
  1. Alternative form of corner boy Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: corner boy
    Sense id: en-cornerboy-en-noun-MJ6mIx~- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1996, Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the Womb: One Man’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker, Bantam Books, page 35",
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          "text": "The buyer walks past the old men at the lot, the family on the stoop, to the cornerboys, as I thought. One cornerboy takes the buyer aside and palms his cash, the second stands still, watching up and down the block, the third goes to the family on the stoop, has a word with the woman with the baby.",
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          "ref": "2012, Michael Foley, Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life, Simon & Schuster",
          "text": "Father O’Flaherty taught Irish, or, to be more precise, spoke Irish with the country boys who already knew the language and insulted, cuffed and punched the contemptible town cornerboys who knew only English. If a cornerboy made an especially grotesque mistake, as often happened, Flah took the soft flesh of the boy’s cheek between his finger and thumb, violently shook the boy’s head till he gurgled, roared in disgust, ‘Are ye goin’ to give us yer breakfast, ye slabber?’ and slammed the head into the partition (the classroom was part of a prefabricated hut divided by wooden partitions).",
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          "text": "‘I haven’t had time to get to know you all yet – but mark my words – I’ll remember you two – I’ve never seen such a display – rolling in the earth like cornerboys.’ I had no clue what a cornerboy was, and Beth and I hadn’t been rolling around on the earth anyway, but it didn’t look like Mrs Gallagher was up for a reasonable debate.",
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