ALL meanings of old boy
old boy
O o - noun old boy Informal. an adult male, especially a Southerner. Compare good old boy. 1
- noun old boy a lively elderly man. 1
- noun old boy Chiefly British. an alumnus, especially of a boys' preparatory or public school. 1
- noun old boy Chiefly British. old chap. 1
- countable noun old boy You can refer to a man who used to be a pupil at a particular school or university as an old boy. 0
- countable noun old boy If you refer to an old or middle-aged man as an old boy, you are referring to him in a disrespectful way. 0
- noun old boy a male ex-pupil of a school 0
- noun old boy a familiar name used to refer to a man 0
- noun old boy an old man 0
- noun old boy an alumnus, esp. of a boys' preparatory school 0
- noun old boy a man belonging to a social, professional, etc. group regarded as prestigious or influential, whose members provide one another with assistance or preferential treatment 0