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black boy

British  
/ ˈblækˌbɔɪ /

noun

  1. another name for grass tree

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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


Example Sentences

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The force added it was responding to a flood on Goetre Fawr Road, Killay, which is closed both ways from The Black Boy Pub to the roundabout.

From BBC

In the film there's a scene where a young black boy who had earlier ripped a poster of Hansie off his wall is seen fixing it back together.

From BBC

“Forever,” the TV show, is one of the first coming-of-age shows in a long while about a period of time in the life of a Black girl that rides the express highs and lows of adolescence, and one of the first to place a Black boy in the same place of emotional tenderness.

From Salon

“I posit that the Black boy is the most vulnerable,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

While conducting research for “Small Axe,” his 2020 anthology of films about resilience in the city’s West Indian community, McQueen had come across a photograph of a Black boy on a train station platform awaiting evacuation during the Blitz.

From Los Angeles Times