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B-boy¹

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Shortened from break + boy.

noun B-boys · Bboy · B-Boy · BBoy · b-boy · bboy

  1. slang A male who performs b-boying or breaking, commonly called breakdance; a breaker.
  2. slang A male member of the hip-hop subculture.

verb B-boys · B-boying · B-boyed · Bboy · B-Boy

  1. slang To breakdance. By dancing to “Apache” or “It's Just Begun,” any contemporary breaker is arguing that communal values are shared by anyone who has b-boyed over the last three decades.

b-boy²

noun b-boys

  1. Alternative letter-case form of B-boy

verb b-boys · b-boying · b-boyed

  1. Alternative letter-case form of B-boy

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@misc{b_boy_2026,
  title = {b-boy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/b-boy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}