as in boys
a male romantic companion
her boyfriend always brings her flowers for Valentine's Day
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Recent Examples of boyfriends
Any other boyfriends, any other — anybody else.
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Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2024
Older women with boyfriends, yes; older women with bedpans, no.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
But boyfriends — particularly adult ones — fall outside of this scope.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
Half is catching up on personal life (engagements, babies, boyfriends), the other half is venting about work.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024
The pair, attempting very bad Mancunian accents, argued for a while before finding common ground on their favorite and least favorite Sex in the City boyfriends.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
The bit, introduced by host Colin Jost, featured the two notoriously feuding brothers, who can’t seem to agree on anything but their favorite cartoon characters and Sex and the City boyfriends.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2024
Over the course of several minutes, Johnson and Sherman adopt outrageous posh accents to feud over past slights featuring the likes of the Spice Girls, bonding solely over their love of the same cartoons (SpongeBob) and favorite of Carrie Bradshaw’s boyfriends in Sex and the City.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
By then the witchy girl was everywhere, forming outcast covens in The Craft, fighting supernatural baddies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, all grown up and empowered to destroy abusive boyfriends in Practical Magic.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2024
Older women with boyfriends, yes; older women with bedpans, no.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
But boyfriends — particularly adult ones — fall outside of this scope.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
Half is catching up on personal life (engagements, babies, boyfriends), the other half is venting about work.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024
The pair, attempting very bad Mancunian accents, argued for a while before finding common ground on their favorite and least favorite Sex in the City boyfriends.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024
The bit, introduced by host Colin Jost, featured the two notoriously feuding brothers, who can’t seem to agree on anything but their favorite cartoon characters and Sex and the City boyfriends.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2024
Over the course of several minutes, Johnson and Sherman adopt outrageous posh accents to feud over past slights featuring the likes of the Spice Girls, bonding solely over their love of the same cartoons (SpongeBob) and favorite of Carrie Bradshaw’s boyfriends in Sex and the City.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
By then the witchy girl was everywhere, forming outcast covens in The Craft, fighting supernatural baddies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, all grown up and empowered to destroy abusive boyfriends in Practical Magic.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Boyfriends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boyfriends. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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