b'hoy

A rough-and-tumble working-class young man in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period.

Noun

  1. A rough-and-tumble working-class young man in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period.

    historical, slang

    Coordinate Terms: g'hal

  2. A political operative.

    Baltimore

Origin

Supposed to evoke an Irish pronunciation of boy.

Forms

b'hoys