good old boy

1. 1.

   a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group

   Synonymsgood ole boygood ol' boy

   Broaderwhite manSoutherner

Questions about good old boy

What does good old boy mean?

good old boy means "a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group".

What is another word for good old boy?

Close synonyms include good ole boy, good ol' boy. 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 good old boy a common word?

good old boy 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.