Boy Scout

Definitions

1. 1

   A male member of the Scout Movement.

2. 2

   A person, especially a politician, who is idealistic and naive.

   • Gore, of course, has never been a political Boy Scout, least of all when it comes to campaign finance.
   • When he arrived in Washington, some people thought of him as a Boy Scout, perhaps because he wore his hair in a crew cut.
3. 3

   A man adhering to the values of honesty and idealism, and possibly somewhat naive or…

   A man adhering to the values of honesty and idealism, and possibly somewhat naive or unworldly.

   • An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club".
   • But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions.
   • Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst.

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