- (British English)
a man who used to be a student at a particular school, usually a private one （通常指私立学校的）校友 They’re having an old boys’ reunion next month. 他们下个月有一个大男孩聚会。
- (informal, especially British English)
an old man 老人；老头 see also good old boy, old girl
Idioms
the old boy network
- (British English, informal, often disapproving) (especially in the past)
the situation in many British companies, government departments and branches of the armed forces where people give jobs to former students of the school or university that they went to 校友关系网；老同学间的互相关照 Recruiting staff used to be done by means of the old boy network. 招聘人员以前是通过旧男孩网络来完成的。 Most of the managers were chosen by the old boy network and many of them turned out to be incompetent. 多数经理人是由老伙计网络选拔的，结果发现许多经理人无能。