boy scouts

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   an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys

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Questions about boy scouts

What does boy scouts mean?

boy scouts means "an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys".

Is boy scouts a common word?

boy scouts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.