B-boy

A male who performs b-boying or breaking, commonly called breakdance; a breaker.

Noun

  1. A male who performs b-boying or breaking, commonly called breakdance; a breaker.

    slang

  2. A male member of the hip-hop subculture.

    slang

Origin

Shortened from break + boy.

Forms

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

Verb

  1. To breakdance.

    slang

    • 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. - 2017, Tom Perchard, editor, From Soul to Hip Hop, Routledge, page 517

Forms

B-boys B-boying B-boyed Bboy B-Boy BBoy b-boy bboy