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beachboy

American  
[beech-boi] / ˈbitʃˌbɔɪ /

noun

  1. a male attendant or swimming instructor at a beach.


Etymology

Origin of beachboy

First recorded in 1935–40; beach + boy

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In conversation with a beachboy down the hall, Bobby Beathard, Madden started to consider the game a sophisticated study.

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Joseph, played with spirit if not much conviction by Bill Hutton, is a blond beachboy in shorts and a cutoff shirt.

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Two current examples come from American International, the studio that perfected the beachboy epic.

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The Scarlet Ruse and The Turquoise Lament are the 14th and 15th installments of MacDonald's serially published dream manual about the beachboy Hamlet, Travis McGee.

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As beachboy Charlie proved, the human race has never been more technologically capable of calling for help or sounding a long-distance death knell.

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