Meanings
- informalpluralplural onlyslangThe speaker's group of male friends. This phrase is often put after "me and" if the speaker is referring to themselves and their friends.
Me and the boys are gonna go hang out for a bit.
1 more example
I realized, as one of them was explaining to me the details of his targets’ security routines, that intercepted nudes were a kind of informal office currency, because his buddy kept spinning in his chair to interrupt us with a smile, saying, “Check her out,” to which my instructor would invariably reply “Bonus!” or “Nice!” The unspoken transactional rule seemed to be that if you found a naked photo or video of an attractive target—or someone in communication with a target—you had to show the rest of the boys, at least as long as there weren’t any women around.
2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN
Translations
Swedish grabbarna grus
- grabbarna grusaction given to provide assistance
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the boys. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20boys
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