man and boy

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmæn n̩ ˈbɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

man and boy (not comparable)

1. (British) During one's manhood and boyhood; since one's childhood; all one's life.

   I’ve lived here forty years, man and boy.

• woman and girl

• “man and boy, adv.” under “man, n.¹ (and int.)”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021.
• “man and boy, phrase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “man and boy”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “man and boy” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “man and boy” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.