boy-girl

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Noun

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boy-girl (plural boy-girls)

  1. Someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Baudelaire is uninterested in boy-girls or transvestites. His androgynes must be voluptuously female in body contour.

Adjective

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boy-girl (not comparable)

  1. Characterized by stereotypical romantic relationships between young people.
    • 2006, American Songwriter Magazine: Song: The World's Best Songwriters on Creating the Music That Moves Us:
      And then one reviewer said that it was your average boy-girl song and the writer didn't understand why people were making such a big deal out of it.
    • 2015, Peter Stanfield, The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema:
      If the coffeehouse beatnik scene was too limited in its appeal to become a significant cinematic attraction (not enough boy-girl romantic action), it still gave rise to a number of film scenarios []

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