Cornerboy

Quick meaning: Cornerboy is a noun meaning Alternative form of corner boy.

Meaning

Alternative form of corner boy.

Example Sentences

My cornerboys jumped in saying, “You got him, man. This is fair-ones, you got him.” In fair-ones, once you beat a guy, the fight is over. I was now a full-fledged cornerboy.

Particular locales were bound up with cornerboy membership and activities.[…]Street cornerboys articulated with Mafia clubs, or “horse rooms”, which functioned as outposts for the administration of syndicate business and control.

When the cornerboys saw that no one was coming out, they pelted the dorm with rocks and broke windows. They shouted that if no one came outdoors, they were going in. A cornerboy who wore a headband threw what looked like a lead pipe.

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.

Word Forms

• cornerboys

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