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• black boy
  black boy

  noun

  another name for grass tree
• Black Boy
  Black Boy

  (1945) An autobiographical novel by the African-American author Richard Wright, portraying racial conflicts in the rural South.

black boy

British  

/ ˈblækˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. another name for grass tree

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Black Boy Cultural  

1. (1945) An autobiographical novel by the African-American author Richard Wright, portraying racial conflicts in the rural South.

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Example Sentences

He said it would "give a very different connotation to an image of a black boy if people of Swansea were aware of the city's history".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2022

I had read an honest and stirring account Thorpe had written about his experiences as a young black boy growing up in a Hispanic home during the Rodney King riots.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2020

In Nashville, the police tweeted a photo of cops kneeling next to a black boy with a “Black Lives Matter” sign, smiling from behind their riot helmets.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2020

He painted a black boy in Boy Scout uniform and a phalanx of black girls auditioning for dance parts at a casting call.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2020

A tall black boy stood sweating, panting, and shaking his head.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright