old boy

/ohld -boi for 1, 2; ohld -boi for 3; ohld -boi for 4/US // ˈoʊld ˈbɔɪ for 1, 2; ˈoʊld ˌbɔɪ for 3; ˌoʊld ˈbɔɪ for 4 //

老男孩,老顽童,老伙计,老头子

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Informal. an adult male, especially a Southerner.Compare good old boy.
- : a lively elderly man.
- : Chiefly British. an alumnus, especially of a boys' preparatory or public school.
- : Chiefly British. old chap.

as inold man

Synonyms

I have always thought that if the old boy can wake a Tennessee bumpkin to literature and history, to irony and rhetoric, he can do anything.
On the flip side, it is a closed old boy school with a high-profile sponsor.
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.

Examples

I have always thought that if the old boy can wake a Tennessee bumpkin to literature and history, to irony and rhetoric, he can do anything.

On the flip side, it is a closed old boy school with a high-profile sponsor.

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.

It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.

To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.

Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.