Meaning of collegeboy | Babel Free

Definitions

A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.

Examples

“Why,you simply can’t imagine the difference between … well,a Russian student for instance and an American collegeboy. O no. It just can’t be conceived. Absolutely impossible. Why,tell me:what does the American collegeboy know?huh? Baseball!”

“Collegeboys get jobs on those Grace Line boats to South America.[…]They each passed a couple of remarks about the hot weather; then Ben Noe leaned forward with a little chuckling noise in his throat and asked Glenn, well, collegeboy, how did he like the life of a working stiff.[…]‘That’s my helper, Spike, he’s a good worker even if he is a collegeboy.’[…]All the girls were crazy to meet Glenn, collegeboys from eastern colleges were rare in these parts;”

““Hey ya, collegeboy, keepin’ it sharp?”[…]Collegeboy beams again.”

“The collegeboys will laugh. Jeez man, one of them might say, a smug overgrown teenager with an Astros cap, what a freak. White trash, another collegeboy will join in, laughing.”

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