boyfriend

[boi-frend] /ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd/

noun

a frequent or favorite male companion; beau.

a male friend.

a male lover.

adjective

pertaining to or noting clothing and accessories for women that are inspired by men's fashions: roomy and comfortable boyfriend jeans;

an oversize boyfriend watch.

Origin

1895-1900; boy + friend

Examples from the web for boyfriend

Your cousin makes a fine companion, but it bothers you when your boyfriend insists on wheeling her around on all your dates.
Which is unfortunate, since it's one of my boyfriend's favorite flavors.
But, if you look at relationships nowadays, and my boyfriend lives on another continent.
She has actually defended me before, it was funny, but the ex-boyfriend has never forgotten it.
My boyfriend is the same way and it drives me crazy.
Even my boyfriend's dad wants one for his, he works and he is an ex-terminator and he wants to use it to check for bedbugs.
Her shiftless, insensitive, selfish clod of a boyfriend is not the problem.
Stress testing your new relationship might entail wrecking your boyfriend's new car.
Mamie said that she would meet the others at a restaurant across the street, then disappeared, boyfriend in tow.
One day she and her boyfriend bring food and marijuana over to the writers house and proceed to get drunk and stoned.

British Dictionary definitions for boyfriend

/ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd/

noun

a male friend with whom a person is romantically or sexually involved; sweetheart or lover

Word Origin and History for boyfriend

"woman's paramour," 1909, from boy + friend (n.).