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BOY WONDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boy wonder mean?
• BOY WONDER (noun)
The noun BOY WONDER has 1 sense:
1. an extremely talented young male person
Familiarity information: BOY WONDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extremely talented young male person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("boy wonder" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
prodigy (an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration)
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