Usually means: Exceptionally talented young male prodigy.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word boy wonder:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. boy wonder: Merriam-Webster
  2. boy wonder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boy wonder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boy wonder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boy wonder: Vocabulary.com
  6. boy-wonder: Wordnik
  7. boy wonder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boy wonder: Wiktionary
  9. boy wonder: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. boy wonder: Dictionary.com
  11. Boy Wonder (American Horror Story), Boy Wonder (album), Boy Wonder (disambiguation), Boy Wonder (film), Boy Wonder (novel), Boy Wonder (producer), Boy Wonder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. boy wonder: Rhymezone
  13. boy wonder: FreeDictionary.org
  14. boy wonder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. boy wonder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. boy wonder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy wonder: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy wonder: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (boy wonder)

▸ noun:  (informal) A male child prodigy; wonderboy.

Similar:
Child prodigy, wonderboy, pretty boy, gentleboy, rent boy, man child, bug boy, bugboy, whiz kid, wide boy, more...

Opposite:
girl wonder, underachiever, average Joe/Jane

Phrases:
All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, more...

Adjectives:
baby, boy, schoolboy, kiddish, kiddy, youngling, latchkey, tot lot, kidlike, girlie, jelly

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Similar:
Child prodigy, wonderboy, pretty boy, gentleboy, rent boy, man child, bug boy, bugboy, whiz kid, wide boy, more...

Opposite:
girl wonder, underachiever, average Joe/Jane

Phrases:
All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, more...

Adjectives:
baby, boy, schoolboy, kiddish, kiddy, youngling, latchkey, tot lot, kidlike, girlie, jelly



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