B-boy
See also: b-boy
English
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Noun
- (slang) A male who performs b-boying or breaking, commonly called breakdance; a breaker.
- (slang) A male member of the hip-hop subculture.
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Verb
B-boy (third-person singular simple present B-boys, present participle B-boying, simple past and past participle B-boyed)
- (slang) To breakdance.
- 2017, Tom Perchard, editor, From Soul to Hip Hop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 517:
- 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.
Usage notes
The verb is not considered gender-specific within the community; it is also the preferred term for the activity.[1]
References
- “B-boy”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Tom Perchard, editor (2017), From Soul to Hip Hop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 517: “Although the noun “b-girl” is used for female breakers, the verb “b-boying” is considered non-gender-specific within the community; hence b-girls often refer to what they're doing as “b-boying.””
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