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roaring boy

noun

Definition of ROARING BOY

:  a noisy street bully especially of Elizabethan and Jacobean England who intimidated passersby
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First Known Use of ROARING BOY

circa 1590

Rhymes with ROARING BOY

Adonai, altar boy, attaboy, bullyboy, cabin boy, Charleroi, chorus boy, copyboy, corduroy, good old boy, hoi polloi, mama's boy, Niterói, office boy, paperboy, poster boy, pretty boy, redeploy, sonobuoy, teddy boy, Tinkertoy, water boy, whipping boy

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