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• b-boy
  b-boy

  noun

  a boy or young man who likes or is involved in hip-hop culture.
• B-boy
  B-boy

  noun

  a male rap-music fan, who typically can be identified by his casual style of dress

b-boy

American  

[bee-boi] / ˈbiˌbɔɪ /

noun

Informal.

1. a boy or young man who likes or is involved in hip-hop culture.

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B-boy British  

/ ˈbiːˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. a male rap-music fan, who typically can be identified by his casual style of dress

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Etymology

Origin of b-boy

First recorded in 1980–85; b(reak dancing) ( def. ) + boy ( def. )

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Another b-boy, Abenamar “Ben Stacks” Honrubia, a member of famous crews Knuckleheadzoo and SuperCr3w, retired after losing a battle, taking off his shoes and acknowledging the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

But Steve Gow, the group’s secretary and long-time b-boy Stevie G, tells the BBC the size and isolation of Australia inhibits the growth and development of the scene.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

That makes every Paris b-boy and b-girl battle in this Olympics historic including, for better or worse, Gunn’s overnight notoriety.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024

Culbreath’s dance of grief, though a touch maudlin in its miming, uses the expressive potential of b-boy steps, the way he spirals and windmills on his back, to intensely moving effect.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

“It was...it was...the P-Potter b-boy and t-two accomplices....”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

“The DJ,” American B-boy Jeffrey “Jeffro” Louis said, “is everything.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024

DJ Supreme and Carter McGlasson, aka B-boy Fever One, emerged from our crew and became internationally acclaimed, contributing to Seattle’s unique break style and flavor that survives in new-generation crews like the Massive Monkees.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

The B-boy idiom itself seems boxed in, inhibited.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

Among the upcoming offerings is one featuring Luca Patuelli, Canadian B-boy and founder of ILL-Abilities Company, in a work created by Alessandro Giaquinto of Stuttgart Ballet.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

But I just stood there in my B-boy stance, empowered by strains of “The Bridge Is Over” running through my head, until I felt like the message had gotten across.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore