butcher boy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea.

   “Today I stood on a butcher boy. He died. I feel bad.”

2. isim A man or boy who works for a butcher shop; a butcher's boy.

   “Bob prick’d his lug and scratch’d his pate / For he was flushed with joy, / To think that he should be revenge’d / Upon the Butcher Boy.”

3. isim A male prostitute.

   “He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute”

4. isim Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt.

   “One of his [Casey Stengel's] more practical creations? The butcher boy, in which a batter would draw the infield in by squaring up to bunt ... only to quickly pull it back and take a short, downward swing at the ball.”