"glory boy" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "glory boy (plural glory boys)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero, page 168",
          "text": "“He's not a glory boy. He ain't looking to get his name in the papers, like some mall psycho,” said Bob.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Patricia Sitkin, Remembering Delphi County, page 91",
          "text": "He was a glory boy. Why else would he have spent three years studying the ritualized showing off that was theatre and then given it up when he realized he could be only a journeyman, never a master?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Gini Rifkin, Solace",
          "text": "Always a glory boy, Jones worked hard at keeping his name and accomplishments under the noses of the higher ups.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who seeks fame."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A man who seeks fame."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "glory boy"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero, page 168",
          "text": "“He's not a glory boy. He ain't looking to get his name in the papers, like some mall psycho,” said Bob.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Patricia Sitkin, Remembering Delphi County, page 91",
          "text": "He was a glory boy. Why else would he have spent three years studying the ritualized showing off that was theatre and then given it up when he realized he could be only a journeyman, never a master?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Gini Rifkin, Solace",
          "text": "Always a glory boy, Jones worked hard at keeping his name and accomplishments under the noses of the higher ups.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who seeks fame."
      ],
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        "(informal) A man who seeks fame."
      ],
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        "informal"
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  "word": "glory boy"
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