starboy

English

Etymology

From star +‎ boy.

Noun

starboy (plural starboys)

1. A young male celebrity.
   • 1957 August 17, Samuel Selvon, “Basement Lullaby”, in New Statesman, volume 54, number 1379, New Statesman Ltd, page 196:

     Bar 20 lay there with his hands clasped behind his head, and his knees up with legs, crossed, like how sometimes in them films they show you the starboy lay down there thinking.

   • 2016, The Weeknd, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Doc McKinney, Cirkut, DaHeala, “Starboy”, in Starboy‎, performed by The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk, XO; Republic Records:

     Look what you've done / I'm a, I'm a, I'm a motherfucking starboy

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:starboy.