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boys' love

noun

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from boys + love.

  1. derived from ボーイズラブ

Definitions

  1. a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships…

    a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi

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