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leatherboy

noun

Etymology

From leather + boy.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as leatherboy — “leather + boy”

Definitions

  1. A young or submissive member of the leatherman subculture.

    • Instead he becomes a leatherboy as represented by the character of Joey (Hank Harris), the youngest, least sexually experienced and physically inferior of the group.

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