Usually means: Inexpensive submarine sandwich, New Orleans.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word poor boy:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. poor boy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poor boy: Merriam-Webster
  3. poor boy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poor boy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poor boy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poor boy: Vocabulary.com
  7. poor-boy: Wordnik
  8. poor boy: Wiktionary
  9. poor-boy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. poor boy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. poor boy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. poor boy: Dictionary.com
  13. Poor Boy (Elvis Presley song), Poor Boy (Split Enz song), Poor Boy (The Greenwood), Poor Boy (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Poor boy: Rhymezone
  15. poor boy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. poor boy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. poor boy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poor boy: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (poor boy)

▸ noun:  (US) A submarine sandwich: a po' boy.
▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see poor, boy.

Similar:
hero, grinder, wedge, hoagy, hoagie, hero sandwich, sub, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, submarine sandwich, more...

Opposite:
rich girl, wealthy child, affluent kid

Phrases:
poor little rich boy, poor boy blues, more...

Adjectives:
blokey, moll, la, broad, keelie, boy, la-di-da, bully, zhoosh, paddy, gombeen

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Similar:
hero, grinder, wedge, hoagy, hoagie, hero sandwich, sub, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, submarine sandwich, more...

Opposite:
rich girl, wealthy child, affluent kid

Phrases:
poor little rich boy, poor boy blues, more...

Adjectives:
blokey, moll, la, broad, keelie, boy, la-di-da, bully, zhoosh, paddy, gombeen



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