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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree..
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!
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;
“Hey ya, collegeboy, keepin’ it sharp?”[…]Collegeboy beams again.
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.
Use college boy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
College boy means A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree..
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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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