sailor boy

Questions about sailor boy

What does sailor boy mean?

sailor boy means "a serviceman in the navy".

What is another word for sailor boy?

Close synonyms include bluejacket, navy man, sailor. 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 sailor boy a common word?

sailor 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.