bad boy

noun

: a person who flouts convention
a literary bad boy

Examples of bad boy in a Sentence

He has become known as the bad boy of the American television industry.
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Streaming on Disney+ Disney+ Lilo & Stitch: The Series This bad boy premiered on the Disney Channel the same year as That’s So Raven. Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 24 July 2024 To get around this, a plan is hatched to set Kat up with bad boy Patrick Verona (played by the late Heath Ledger), who is paid to take her out, though things quickly get more complicated when real feelings develop. Jane Lacroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024 But with new admissible evidence emerging, another question lingers: have the country’s most notorious bad boys of Beverly Hills, Erik and Lyle Menendez, finally paid their debt to society? Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 One of these price-on-request bad boys will set you back by at least US$30,000 – and that's not counting the top-of-the-line lenses. New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bad boy 

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bad boy was in 1860

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“Bad boy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20boy. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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