Usually means: Network of former male students.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word old boy:

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. old boy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. old boy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (old boy)

▸ noun:  (chiefly British) An alumnus, especially of a public school.
▸ noun:  A former member of a group.
▸ noun:  (UK, informal) An elderly man.
▸ noun:  (UK, dated) A familiar term of address for a man of any age.

Similar:
old man, good old boy, good ol' boy, highschoolboy, good ole boy, old fruit, oldster, frat boy, aggie, old soldier, more...

Opposite:
newcomer, newcomer to group, new member

Types:
Etonian, Harrovian, Old Wykehamist, Old Carthusian, Old Etonian, more...

Phrases:
old boy network, good old boy, the old boy network, old boy networks, the old boy, more...

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Similar:
old man, good old boy, good ol' boy, highschoolboy, good ole boy, old fruit, oldster, frat boy, aggie, old soldier, more...

Opposite:
newcomer, newcomer to group, new member

Types:
Etonian, Harrovian, Old Wykehamist, Old Carthusian, Old Etonian, more...

Phrases:
old boy network, good old boy, the old boy network, old boy networks, the old boy, My Little Old Boy, more...



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