boi

plural bois · plural boiz

1. alternativeslangAlternative spelling of boy.

   Bois lie, I can too / Revenge is my sweet tooth

   2022, “Bois Lie”, in Love Sux, performed by Avril Lavigne

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   The boi who has been my best friend, the cause of my pain, but never quite my lover is gone....I'm sitting here in his Radiohead "don't tell me what kind of day to have" tee (it smells like him) listening to WYIN, and trying not to cry.

   2000 September 24, Liz Almond, “(ot) the boi is gone...”, in alt.music.placebo (Usenet), retrieved 09 Mar 2008

   And finally, in “Sk8er Boi,” Avril Lavigne tells us in her first two lines about the conflicts between the male and female by saying, “He was a boi, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious.”

   2003, Molly-Ann Leikin, How to Be a Hit Songwriter: Polishing and Marketing Your Lyrics and Music, →ISBN, page 48

   I inadvertently gave the afro-american delivery boi a $5 tip probably due to the fact that I had pickled a few brain cells.

   2004 August 5, "Zonee", “Ungratefull fucking pizza boi....”, in alt.pizza.delivery.drivers (Usenet), retrieved 09 Mar 2008

   Try to count how many times the king [of Hyrule] says "Mah Boi", because I don't know.

   2007 December 7, Kuhneghetz, “YTP - King of Hyrule says "Mah Boi" for about 2 minutes”, in YouTube, retrieved 30 Mar 2025

2. especiallyBDSMA male bottom (i.e. submissive partner), defined not by junior age, but by his obedient role and submission to the dominant "top".

   You, tattooed, butch boi with experience and a leash.

   2004, Kelly A. Morris, Things - Now, Then & Strange, →ISBN, page 178

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   boi will be treated as a boi at all times and will find himself the recepitent ^([sic]) of many bare bottom spankings, private and in front of Daddies ^([sic]) friends.

   2002 March 14, “"MR MARKS"|STRICT DAD FOR BAD BOYS IN PORTLAND OREGON”, in alt.personals.spanking.punishment (Usenet)

   I fucked the boi that way. His ass had never known how good a man's dick feels when it's deep inside […]

   2007, Will Kane, Forbidden Fruit: Psalms of a Black Master, →ISBN, page 273

3. A lesbian who adopts a boyish appearance.

   So new that most people—most lesbians—over the age of 30 have no idea what a boi is. […] Most bois are in their twenties and have come of age in a time when women’s and gay rights seem like more of a given and less of an urgent struggle than they did to lesbians ten or twenty or more years older.

   2004 January 2, Ariel Levy, “Where the Bois Are”, in New York Magazine

4. neologismA trans boy; a trans man or transmasculine person.

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   For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

   2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of boy (“exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing”).

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Bank of India.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Bank of Ireland.
3. PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Bureau of Immigration.

plural BOIs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of basal osseointegrated implant.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of bill of information.

1. a style of Central Amazonian folk music