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boy

Definitions

noun

  1. a friendly informal reference to a grown man
  2. a male human offspring
  3. a youthful male person

Examples

In 1984, he started Oh Boy as an outlet for his songwriting.

During adolescence , boys and girls will take on secondary sexual characteristics.

I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.

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buoy

Definitions

noun

  1. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards

verb

  1. float on the surface of water
  2. keep afloat
  3. mark with a buoy

Examples

Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.

It's soundproof and completely dark, and I go in there for a couple of hours at a time, You don't realize how much stress you carry around in your muscles and tissue until you lie in this completely buoyant environment.

Stocks spent most of the day in positive territory, buoyed in part by the University of Michigan's report showing consumer confidence rose in March to 95.8 from 94.4 in February.

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