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old boy

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old boy
n.
1. Chiefly British A graduate of a public school for boys.
2. A man who is a member of an old-boy network.

old boy
Noun
1. a male ex-pupil of a school
2. Informal, chiefly Brit
a. a familiar form of address used to refer to a man
b. an old man
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.old boyold boy - a familiar term of address for a man
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
2.old boy - a vivacious elderly man
3.old boy - a former male pupil of a school
alumna, alumnus, graduate, grad, alum - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

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After that they two not unfrequently fell in each other's way, and Dick would often treat the old boy to breakfast on a moderate scale and in a restaurant of his own selection.
I waylaid old Bodger--Colonel Bodger, on the committee of the club, you know--and suggested over a whisky-and-soda that the management of Brown's would be behaving like sportsmen if they bumped my salary up a bit, and the old boy nearly strangled himself trying to suck down Scotch and laugh at the same time.
But the old boy was so far from responding, that he would not even walk to Hammersmith on the same side of the way; so, Herbert and I, who remained in town, saw them going down the street on opposite sides; Startop leading, and Drummle lagging behind in the shadow of the houses, much as he was wont to follow in his boat.
 
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