butcher boy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea.
    — Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad.
  2. A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.
    — Bob prick’d his lug and scratch’d his pate / For he was flushed with joy, / To think that he should be revenge’d / Upon the Butcher Boy.
  3. A male prostitute. euphemistic,slang,uncommon
    — He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute
  4. Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt. US
    — One of his [Casey Stengel's] more practical creations? The butcher boy, in which a batter would draw the infield in by squaring up to bunt ... only to quickly pull it back and take a short, downward swing at the ball.

词形变化

butcher boys plural
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