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boy band

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noun

  1. a trendy pop group of young male singers, each member typically cultivating an image so as to appeal to a preteen audience.


boy band

noun

  1. an all-male vocal pop group created to appeal to a young audience
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of boy band1

First recorded in 1980–85
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Williams rose to fame as part of the boy band Take That in the early 1990s, before launching a successful solo career which saw him release hits such as Angels, Millennium and She's The One.

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Spotted watching on were South Korean pop group Blackpink, whose member Lisa was also seen dancing to K-pop boy band Enhypen after performing herself.

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Sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the grisly 1989 shotgun murders of their wealthy parents, Erik and Lyle Menendez saw support for their release surge following the release of a popular Netflix documentary last year and the discovery of potential new evidence that their father, Jose, sexually abused not only the brothers but also a former member of the boy band Menudo.

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They are pursuing a new trial, citing new evidence: a letter written to a cousin by one of them prior to the killings that detailed the abuse, and an allegation by another man — a former member of boy band Menudo — that he was sexually abused by Jose Menendez.

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In 2012 the outfit linked up with a well-connected manager who wanted to turn the Train Robbers into a kind of multiracial street-kid boy band, as Crockett recalled to Texas Monthly; he eventually quit and headed to Northern California to work on a marijuana farm — only to get pulled over with six pounds of weed in his car.

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