| 单词 | all-american boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall-American boy 4. Representative or characteristic of the United States; idealistically or quintessentially American; spec. (of a person) healthy, clean-cut, wholesome, as all-American boy, all-American girl. ΚΠ 1919 Packages Jan. 60/3 Miss Kenyon has painted what many of her admirers will say is her masterpiece. In its appealing ideality she has typified the all-American girl. 1922 Bee (Danville, Va.) 26 Jan. 8/3 (title of comic strip) The All American Family. 1967 S. Terkel Division Street xxi. 354 I don't want a Cleopatra type, talkative..I want an all American, clean-cut, pretty girl. 1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 64/1 He was the All-American boy: the smartest, cleverest, best-looking, most popular kid in school. 1988 R. L. Beranbaum Cake Bible 54 (heading) Perfect all-American chocolate butter cake. 1997 GQ Sept. 241 It's a true all-American community. It's baseball, white pitch fences, apple pie. 2008 Magnet No. 79. 100/3 Gee-whiz all-American kids sporting Roger McGuinn bowl cuts. < as lemmas |
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