Boy Scouts

Noun

Meaning

an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys

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I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment. Margaret Cho

[After describing a hopper for feeding winter game:] If you think you're too old to enjoy building such contraptions - that only Boy Scouts get a kick out of such nonsense - just try it. You may end up by building several. Aldo Leopold

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case. Paul Weyrich

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts. Carl Barks

The only problem with Boy Scouts is, there aren't enough of them. Will Rogers

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. Henry Rollins

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