boyfriend

boyfriend
   a male sexual partner
   Of almost any age over puberty. Heterosexual or homosexual:
    ... occasional liaisons which she alluded to by saying...'He's an old boyfriend of mine.' (Theroux, 1976)
    It is not known whether he will take his South African boy friend, [a] ballet dancer... with him. {Private Eye, March 1981)
   See also girlfriend.

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