Meanings
plural business boys
- slangA male prostitute.
And another cop once gently shook his head when someone started making up to me — it was a 'business boy' or chinpira, a teenage hoodlum prostitute, and so highly dangerous.
1993, James Kirkup, Me All Over: Memoirs of a Misfit, page 471 more example
The existence of organised brothels has not eliminated the street and bar prostitution trade in Amsterdam. […] went to an empty table in a far corner where, over some more drink, he explained that this was a bar for 'business boys'.
2012, Donald James West, Male Prostitution, page 305
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