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golden boy

noun

Definitions

  1. A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.

    • Bill Gates was the golden boy of the software industry in the early 1980s.
    • On Friday, November 17, 2023, around noon Pacific time, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Silicon Valley’s golden boy, avatar of the generative AI revolution, logged on to a Google Meet to see four of his five board members staring at him.

  2. A favored youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.

    • He was the golden boy of Montana politics.

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