Synonyms for boy-scout:
adj. reliable
noun helping person
noun lawman
noun law enforcement officer
noun law enforcement officer
Examples of uses:
You really think this boy-scout bullshit's gonna work.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
You eggheads have the survival skills of a boy-scout troop.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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Title: Children's Ways, author: James Sully, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37020/37020-h/37020-h.htm
You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.
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Title: The Boarded-Up House, author: Augusta Huiell Seaman, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30905/30905-h/30905-h.htm
Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
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Title: Squinty the Comical Pig, author: Richard Barnum, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11069/11069-h/11069-h.htm
A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.
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Title: The Courier of the Ozarks, author: Byron A. Dunn, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35207/35207-h/35207-h.htm
Several times after this the boy and his sisters came to look down into the pig pen.
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Title: Squinty the Comical Pig, author: Richard Barnum, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11069/11069-h/11069-h.htm
A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
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Title: Children's Ways, author: James Sully, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37020/37020-h/37020-h.htm
When he gets quite large the boy will get tired of having him for a pet, and perhaps bring him back.
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Title: Squinty the Comical Pig, author: Richard Barnum, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11069/11069-h/11069-h.htm
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
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Title: Squinty the Comical Pig, author: Richard Barnum, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11069/11069-h/11069-h.htm
