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schoolboys

  • plural
    of schoolboy.
    schoolboy
    noun
    a boy attending school.

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Like many schoolboys, I idolized Indiana Jones and James Bond for all the usual reasons, not least their double lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Like giddy schoolboys, they couldn't wait to get there, says Ferguson.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

"Hanging by a Wire" tells the story of the nail-biting race to save schoolboys dangling from a stranded cable car in the Himalayan foothills.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

"Sonny scored a great goal to give us that extra buffer. We had the schoolboys out there in the end."

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

Then he dove at Cecil again, both of them giggling like schoolboys.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy