starboy
nounEtymology From star + boy.
1
A young male celebrity.
- Bar 20 lay there with his hands clasped behind his head, and his knees up with legs, crossed, like how sometimes in them films they show you the starboy lay down there thinking.1957 August 17, Samuel Selvon, “Basement Lullaby”, in New Statesman, volume 54, number 1379, New Statesman Ltd, page 196:
- Look what you've done / I'm a, I'm a, I'm a motherfucking starboy2016, The Weeknd, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Doc McKinney, Cirkut, DaHeala, “Starboy”, in Starboy, performed by The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk, XO; Republic Records:
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