Usually means: Youth member of scouting organization.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word boy scout:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boy Scout: Merriam-Webster
  2. Boy Scout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Boy Scout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boy scout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Boy Scout, boy scout: Vocabulary.com
  6. boy scout: Wordnik
  7. Boy Scout, Boy scout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Boy Scout, boy scout: Wiktionary
  9. Boy Scout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. boy scout: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Boy scout, boy scout: Dictionary.com
  12. Boy Scout (disambiguation), Boy Scout, Boy scout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. boy scout: Rhymezone
  14. boy scout: FreeDictionary.org
  15. boy scout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Boy Scout: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. boy scout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. Boy Scout: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy scout: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy scout: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. boy scout: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy scout, the boy scout: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See boy_scouting as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Boy scout)

▸ noun:  A male member of the Scout Movement.
▸ noun:  (slang) A person, especially a politician, who is idealistic and naive.
▸ noun:  A male member of the Scout Movement.
▸ noun:  (sometimes derogatory) A man adhering to the values of honesty and idealism, and possibly somewhat naive or unworldly.

Similar:
scout, Scouter, Scoutmaster, Cub Scout, Life Scout, scoutmastership, Star Scout, skip, Cubmaster, scoutdom, more...

Opposite:
delinquent, troublemaker, rebel, rogue, miscreant

Phrases:
The Last Boy Scout, Boy Scout Handbook, Boy Scout Lane, most boy scout leaders, boy scout badge type, more...

Adjectives:
rainbow, second, pioneering, moot, maverick, blue, color, black and white, german, serial, matey

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Similar:
scout, Scouter, Scoutmaster, Cub Scout, Life Scout, scoutmastership, Star Scout, skip, Cubmaster, scoutdom, more...

Opposite:
delinquent, troublemaker, rebel, rogue, miscreant

Phrases:
The Last Boy Scout, Boy Scout Handbook, Boy Scout Lane, most boy scout leaders, boy scout badge type, more...

Adjectives:
rainbow, second, pioneering, moot, maverick, blue, color, black and white, german, serial, matey



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