boy-girl

noun

Someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.

Meanings

nounboy-girl (plural boy-girls)

plural boy-girls

  1. Someone who has characteristics of both boys and girls; someone young and androgynous.

    Baudelaire is uninterested in boy-girls or transvestites. His androgynes must be voluptuously female in body contour.

    1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
adjectiveboy-girl (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCharacterized by stereotypical romantic relationships between young people.

    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.

    2006, American Songwriter Magazine: Song: The World's Best Songwriters on Creating the Music That Moves Us
    1 more example

    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 […]

    2015, Peter Stanfield, The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
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Chicago

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