soulboy

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English

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Etymology

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From soul +‎ boy.

Noun

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soulboy (plural soulboys)

  1. An adherent of any of a variety of British subcultures of the 1970s and 1980s that focused on soul or funk music and dancing, most notably the northern soul movement.
    • 2012, Fred Perry Presents Subculture:
      Paul Gorman: The soulboy emerged early- to mid-seventies. And he was one of the later outcrops of mod. Clothes-obsessed, dance music-obsessed, usually black music dance-obsessed.