Meanings
noundolly-boy (plural dolly-boys)
plural dolly-boys
- A toyboy; a gigolo.
He meant, because of Wagner, though he can't have been unaware of the discreetly homosexual style of the whole place, the waiters in tails with long white aprons, the rich older men treating their bored and flirtatious young dolly-boys.
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 118 - historicalThe person (e.g. an apprentice) tasked with holding a rivet dolly in an Australian World War 2 aircraft factory.
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dolly-boy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dolly-boy
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