What is "good old boy"

alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) A male friend or chum, especially a schoolmate; a man with an established network of friends who assist one another in social and business situations; a decent, dependable fellow. 2 (context idiomatic chiefly southern US sometimes derogatory English) A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embody the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA. n. 1 (context idiomatic English) A male friend or chum, especially a schoolmate; a man with an established network of friends who assist one another in social and business situations; a decent, dependable fellow. 2 (context idiomatic chiefly southern US sometimes derogatory English) A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased white man who embody the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.

n. 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 [syn: good ole boy, good ol' boy]