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- noun A
girlish boy .
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Examples
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The sensual tale of girl-boy love, "Colette Looks Back", is a story of hair – young boy-girl Colette's wild meadow of hair is plaited and tamed, used as rope and reins, and finally cut.
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love by Michèle Roberts Stevie Davies 2010
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The girl-girl couple would look like a girl-boy couple.
Betwa Sharma: The Love Story of Elizabeth and Her Transman Deen: Meet the Couple Betwa Sharma 2010
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Lewis and Rice borrow from everywhere, in the least obtrusive of ways: Their super-distorto sonics evoke the (otherwise very different) girl-boy duo Sleigh Bells; their warmly confessional vibe channels Best Coast; their melodies conjure up R.E.M. Even more fundamentally, most every track, in either melody or tone, brings to mind Roy Orbison, whom Rice portrayed in the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line."
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"The moon was shining on the lake tonight, the Slayer T-shirt fit the scene just right ..." starts "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To," and it's all so very girl-boy, pop-punk-emo, with a guest Beatles affectation and a trip to the girlfriend's mom and dad's house.
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She exploited the idea of a girl-boy Yankele [Little Jackie] persona and played a variety of such roles in productions throughout the world.
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Read the full story "Cycler teenage girl-boy swap story" »
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I wore those white boots to school, to my first girl-boy party, all around my neighborhood, and up and down the stairs of my house.
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I'll have to post some of my girl-boy traits sometime.
Confessions of a Girl-Boy Slimbolala 2006
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Hell, I even know who Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen is and that's a Brit girl-boy thing ...
Confessions of a Girl-Boy Slimbolala 2006
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As I say, this may be a girl-boy thing, or an international dispute, about who should see a shrink when.
Elizabeth Benedict: Movies Instead of High School? Join The Film Club! 2008
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