Is Billy Boy a Word?

noun. A boy who makes tea and does other jobs for a group of workers. 'He joined his father in the grass seeding from an early age, first as a billy boy. '

What is a Billy boy?

: a flat-bottomed bluff-bowed river or coasting boat usually rigged as a ketch or sloop and carrying leeboards.

Is Billy a slang word?

By 1959, Billie Hoke was used as rhyming slang for cocaine, though this slang has dropped out. In mid-2000s Australian slang, billie referred to a marijuana pipe, perhaps based on the Australian surf company Billabong or billy, a term for a kettle Down Under.

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