Crossword clues for boy scout
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boy scout \Boy scout\ Orig., a member of the ``Boy Scouts,'' an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In ``The Boy Scouts of America'' the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A male member of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting. 2 A person adhering to traditional values. 3 (context slang often pejorative English) A person, especially a politician, who is idealistic and naive n. 1 A male member of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting. 2 A person adhering to traditional values. 3 (context slang often pejorative English) A person, especially a politician, who is idealistic and naive
WordNet
n. a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts
a man who is considered naive
Wikipedia
Boy Scouts or Boy Scout may refer to:
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Boy Scouts, members, sections or organisations in the Scouting Movement
- Scout (Scouting), a boy or a girl participating in the worldwide Scouting movement
- Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?, an American reality television series
- The Last Boy Scout, a 1991 action film starring Bruce Willis
- Boy Scout Lane, an isolated road located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, mentioned in various ghost stories
- Boy Scout Preserve, a park in Pasco County, Florida.
- USS Boy Scout (SP-53), a U.S. Navy section patrol craft in service from 1916 to c. 1920
Usage examples of "boy scout".
He ate it from his Boy Scout messkit, sitting on one of the playground swings and rocking slowly back and forth with his shadow trailing out long across the faded lines of the basketball court.
If I ever publish that collection of Boy Scout stories, this story will appear unchanged.
When he couldn't do that, when it had been too dangerous to move, hiding under weeds on the bank, watching traffic move on the river road, hearing the ripping thunder of the flak batteries on the hilltops, wondering what some 37mm fire could do to him if some North Vietnamese boy scout stumbled across him and let his father know.
Outside the wind moaned along the eaves of the small house and George reckoned he would have a story to tell at the next Boy Scout Camporee, all right.
The one on the left, titled INVESTMENT, showed an angelic young fellow in a Boy Scout uniform, right hand raised in the three-fingered Boy Scout salute.