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barrow-boy

/bar-oh-boi/US // ˈbær oʊˌbɔɪ //

撬棍男孩,杠精,杠铃男孩,撬棍小子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British.

    • : a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.

Examples

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

  • This is Bey and Nicki at their most lyrically masochistic, and boy, is it a treat.

  • Interviews in Serial (including ones from Adnan) do acknowledge that Jay was known as a resident bad boy at Woodlawn High School.

  • The former Virginia governor was once the golden boy of the GOP.

  • A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.

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

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

  • Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

  • A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.

  • Several times after this the boy and his sisters came to look down into the pig pen.