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altar boy

noun

  1. a male altar server.


altar boy

noun

  1. RC Church Church of England a boy serving as an acolyte
“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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Origin of altar boy1

First recorded in 1765–75
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When her father numbs his pain with his wife’s prescription and sadly croons a song from when he was an altar boy, Piper can only roll her eyes and excuse herself from the room.

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Feeling the full weight of his situation, the former altar boy scrawls a short letter to his family — “I’m so sorry. I love you all.” — just before raising the handgun to his temple.

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This was Rivers unplugged, foul-mouthed in a way that made me feel like a squeamish altar boy.

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She and Tony have a fraught relationship given Tony’s checkered past, which, we come to realize, has something to do with a horrifying experience from his days as an altar boy.

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He was also an altar boy for seven years, although that was a lot more stressful.

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