city boy

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   a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing

   Synonymscity slicker

   Broaderslicker

Questions about city boy

What does city boy mean?

city boy means "a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing".

What is another word for city boy?

Close synonyms include city slicker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city boy a common word?

city boy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.