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old-boyism en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of old boyism.
    alt of old boyism
    • A recent president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, an organization regarded almost universally as a bastion of 'old-boyism,' was the female chief of police of Gaithersburg, Maryland. 2008, Margaret E. Beare, Honouring Social Justice, →ISBN:
    • And they serve it up with a powerful seasoning of old-boyism and arbitrary clique preference as between white males. 1995, Duncan Kennedy, Sexy Dressing Etc, →ISBN, page 45:
    • The latter are characteristically few in number, and they reciprocate government old-boyism and good-old-boyism with heart-warmineg liberal donations to conservative causes — electoral and otherwise. 2014, Preston King, Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays, →ISBN, page 99: