boy scout
See also: Boy Scout
English
Noun
boy scout (plural boy scouts)
- A male member of the Scout Movement.
- A person adhering to the values of honor and honesty.
- 1982 The economist, Volume 284, Economist Newspaper Ltd., p24
- An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club".
- 1987 Wall Street Journal, October 2
- But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions.
- 2003 Roger F. S. Kaplan, Conservative socialism: the decline of radicalism and triumph of the Left in France, Transaction Publishers, p91
- Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst.
- 1982 The economist, Volume 284, Economist Newspaper Ltd., p24
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