boyband

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A form of boy band — A pop group whose members are all (usually attractive) young men.

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Meanings

nounboyband (plural boybands)

plural boybands

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of boy band.

    Kay Murphy and former Boyzoner Stephen Gately, who ditches the boyband look in favour of the loincloth attire for his stage debut as Joseph.

    2003 February 28 – March 6, Metro Life Magazine (Evening Standard), page 26
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    The man who gave us all those cheesy 1990s boybands has died. Lou Pearlman was the brains behind *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys (and many other copy-and-paste acts).

    2016 August 22, Doug Criss, “5 things for Monday, August 22: Turkey, Olympics, Donald Trump”, in CNN

    Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.

    2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN
Cite this entry
APA

boyband. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boyband

MLA

“boyband.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boyband. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boyband,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boyband.

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