"old boyism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1866, Public Opinion - Volume 9, page 648:",
          "text": "And even amongst those who are of the bachelor persuasion, there are not a few honest trumps who never exhibit old boyism.",
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          "ref": "1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, National Science Foundation Peer Review:",
          "text": "I think whatever kind of a frying pan we may be in now with respect to oversight might turn into a fire of old boyism if Congress became the court of last resort on all of these grants.",
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          "ref": "1989, Sherry Suib Cohen, Tender Power: A Revolutionary Approach to Work and Intimacy, page 8:",
          "text": "Plain old power, the way it is usually practiced in the traditionally male-dominated environment, is the stuff of old boyism.",
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        "The existence and use of old boy networks."
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          "text": "I think whatever kind of a frying pan we may be in now with respect to oversight might turn into a fire of old boyism if Congress became the court of last resort on all of these grants.",
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