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Billyboy

Billyboy \Bil"ly*boy`\, n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

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billyboy

n. (context UK English) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

Usage examples of "billyboy".

We called him Bill, or maybe Billyboy, which was what his mom called him.

Municipal Power Plant that we came across Billyboy and his five droogs.

It was stinking fatty Billyboy I wanted now, and there I was dancing about with my britva like I might be a barber on board a ship on a very rough sea, trying to get in at him with a few fair slashes on his unclean oily litso.

Down this blood poured in like red curtains, but you could viddy Billyboy felt not a thing, and he went lumbering on like a filthy fatty bear, poking at me with his nozh.

The other was, of course, Dim, who had used to be my droog and also the enemy of stinking fatty goaty Billyboy, but was now a millicent with uniform and shlem and whip to keep order.

He took no notice of what Billyboy and Dim did to your Humble Narrator.

I was like wandering all over the flat in pain and sickness, trying to shut out the music and like groaning deep out of my guts, and then on top of the pile of books and papers and all that cal that was on the tablein the living room I viddied what I had to do and what I had wanted to do until those old men in the Public Biblio and then Dim and Billyboy disguised as rozzes stopped me, and that was to do myself in, to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked and cruel world.