B-boy

noun, verb — 3 senses

B-boy

noun

Etymology Shortened from break + boy.

1

Slang A male who performs b-boying or breaking, commonly called breakdance; a breaker.

2

Slang A male member of the hip-hop subculture.

Coordinate terms: B-girl

B-boy

verb

Etymology Shortened from break + boy.

1

Slang To breakdance.

By dancing to “Apache” or “It's Just Begun,” any contemporary breaker is arguing that communal values are shared by anyone who has b-boyed over the last three decades.2017, Tom Perchard, editor, From Soul to Hip Hop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 517:

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