Webelo

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A form of Webelos — A young scout in the Boy Scouts of America who is working his way up to the Boy Scouts.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounWebelo (plural Webelos)

plural Webelos

  1. singularsingular of Webelos (“a singular Webelo(s) Scout”)

    Now that he was a Webelo, I couldn't get out of it.

    2005 May 1, Susan Reinhardt, Not Tonight, Honey: Wait 'til I'm A Size 6, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 156
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    Sixty thousand people paid to watch a Webelo tie a slipknot.

    2007 December 1, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN

    He is in his last year of grade school, is looking forward to being a Webelo scout and really enjoys bowling. Alyssa is away from home at Washington State University, working very hard to make ends meet, and also studying very hard.

    2008 12, Betty Myers, My Story: The Blessings of My Life, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 285

    He could jump right in as a Webelo.” Even before Art said it, everyone who'd ever seen Scot instinctively knew he was a Webelo. Sam judiciously said, “It's an interesting idea, Art.” Art adjusted his neckerchief.

    2010 05, Michael Downing, Breakfast with Scot, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 210

    […] I had graduated from being a Cub scout into a Webelo, which was sort of an older version of a Cub scout, but not yet a Boy Scout.

    2011, Justin Bond, Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 35

    My first was in the Boy Scouts as a webelo candidate. The honor of becoming a webelo scout was a distinct kind of merit badge. It signified that the scout first initiated a request to undergo a rather scary test. I was eleven years old.

    2012 November 19, Robert Colacurcio PhD, Real Presence: a Method for Finding God in All Things, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 10

Origin

Back-formation from Webelos, interpreted as a plural noun.

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APA

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Chicago

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