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black boy

/ 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

  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

The facts do not cease to matter merely because a white cop killed a black boy.

That day, Jesse Coleman, a 12-year-old black boy, and his older brother and sister were walking back to their home in Dorchester.

Ask some, even when a black boy happens to not have been shot dead lately.

Not bad, as he likes to say, "for a little gay, black boy from Oakland."

That same black boy is seven times more likely to be imprisoned in his lifetime than a white boy.

Lloyd and Graham have both been down with “belly belong him” (Black Boy speech).

“Et moi—Cupidon,” finished the little black boy, running up, and then retreating as fast back into his corner.

He called a black boy, who presently brought round a miserable cart drawn by two skeleton ponies.

I can lead one, my black boy can ride another and lead the third.

One of them is a woman kneading bread; another is a black boy sitting on a pony, with a basket of fruit in front of him.

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