collegeboy

English edit

Etymology edit

From college +‎ boy.

Noun edit

collegeboy (plural collegeboys)

A young man who is a student in tertiary education, or one who holds a tertiary degree.
- 1933, E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia, Liveright, published 2007, page 326:
  Why,you simply can’t imagine the difference between … well,a Russian student for instance and an American collegeboy. O no. It just can’t be conceived. Absolutely impossible. Why,tell me:what does the American collegeboy know?huh? Baseball!
- 1967, John Dos Passos, Adventures of a Young Man, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, pages 63, 76, 79, and 150:
  Collegeboys get jobs on those Grace Line boats to South America. […] They each passed a couple of remarks about the hot weather; then Ben Noe leaned forward with a little chuckling noise in his throat and asked Glenn, well, collegeboy, how did he like the life of a working stiff. […] ‘That’s my helper, Spike, he’s a good worker even if he is a collegeboy.’ […] All the girls were crazy to meet Glenn, collegeboys from eastern colleges were rare in these parts;
- 1994, The Alchemist Review: An Arts Magazine, pages 43 and 46:
  “Hey ya, collegeboy, keepin’ it sharp?” […] Collegeboy beams again.
- 2016, Toby Vieira, Marlow’s Landing, John Murray, →ISBN:
  The collegeboys will laugh. Jeez man, one of them might say, a smug overgrown teenager with an Astros cap, what a freak. White trash, another collegeboy will join in, laughing.