Rover Boy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Rover Boy
After the heroes of the Rover Boys series, American children's books by Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930)
Example Sentences
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Early in March, Rover Boy Halliburton set out from Hong Kong in a Chinese junk for San Francisco, intending to make a fashionably late appearance at the Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jack Lemmon, as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Yank at Oxford is peopled with an extraordinarily fine cast of British players, but its humor is situational, its dialogue early Rover Boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jack Lemmon. as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Thomas," Malone said, "you are a Rover Boy First-Class."
From Supermind by Janifer, Laurence M.
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