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City Boy

Definition: City Boy

City Boy

Noun

1. A city dweller with sophisticated manners.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: City Boy

Synonym: city slicker (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: City Boy

Specialty definitions using "city boy": Aner. (references)

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Modern Usage: City Boy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You've got city boy hands, Hooper. (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb)

Lyrics

Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit (DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'; performing artist: Journey)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: City Boy

DomainTitle

Books

  • City Boy, Country Heart: A Meandering Mosaic of Misty Mountain Memories from the Heart of West Virginia (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: City Boy

Photos:
City Boy

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Photo Album: City Boy

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

"A Junction City boy scout from troupe #334 finds more than garbage to pick up". Credit: Saundra Miles.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: City Boy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the city boy

20

new york city boy

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: City Boy

Language Translations for "city boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

großstadtkind, großstadtjunge. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

シップエア方式 (chiffon, chignon style, cine mode, cine sign, cinefilm, cinema, cinema complex, CinemaScope, Cinerama, cineraria, cinnamon, citron, city, city air terminal, city gal, city guide, city hall, city pops, civic, civic center, civic trust, civil minimum, civilian control, civilization, cynic, cynical, cynicism, move into low gear, scenario, scenario writer, senior, severe, shift, shift dress, shift in, shift key, shift out, shift-JIS, ship air system, Sinanthropus pekinensis, sine curve, sinusoide, Sydney, synagogue, synapse, synergy, synonym, synopsis). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

シティーボーイ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itycay oybay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: City Boy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-i-o-t-y-y"

-3 letters: city, obit, otic, toby.

-4 letters: bio, bit, bot, boy, cob, cot, coy, icy, obi, tic, toy, yob.

-5 letters: bi, bo, by, it, oy, ti, to, yo.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-i-o-t-y-y"
 

+3 letters: bryophytic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: City Boy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 69 74 79      42 6F 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#105 &#116 &#121 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0069 0074 0079      0042 006F 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

377586912368191

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Non-English Dictionaries with "City Boy"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ"

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjapaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ"

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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