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English
Etymology
From highschool + boy, on the pattern of schoolboy.
Pronunciation
Noun
highschoolboy (plural highschoolboys)
- (rare, nonstandard) A male student of a high school.
- Coordinate term: highschoolgirl
- 1949: Willem Bordewijk, Een onderzoek naar de factoren, die beroepswens en beroepsvoorstelling van de proletarische jeugd beinvloeden, page 32 (J. B. Wolter)
- The influence of father’s occupation on the vocational choices of highschoolboys.
1968, Dennis Brutus, Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison, reprint edition, Heinemann Educational, →ISBN, page 22, →ISBN:A studious highschoolboy he looked
— as in fact I later found he was —
bespectacled, with soft-curved face
and withdrawn protected air:
and I marvelled, envied him
so untouched he seemed to be
in that hammering brutal atmosphere.
- 1990: Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai university, volume 21, issue 2, page 23 (関西大学社会学部)
- As a numerical example, the factor solutions of the YG Personality Inventory obtained from 3 groups of highschoolboys were checked numerically by means of sum of squares of differences and also of reference structure.