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old boy

  [ohld boi for 1, 2; ohld boi for 3; ohld boi for 4]
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–noun
1. Informal: Sometimes Disparaging. an adult male, esp. a Southerner. Compare good old boy.
2. a lively elderly man.
3. Chiefly British. an alumnus, esp. of a boys' preparatory or public school.
4. Chiefly British. old chap.
Origin:
1595–1605

old chap

 
–noun Chiefly British.
(used in informal direct address).
Also, old boy, old fellow.

Origin:
1815–25
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old boy  
n.  

  1. Chiefly British A graduate of a public school for boys.

  2. A man who is a member of an old-boy network.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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