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boy band

noun

boy band is a noun meaning “A pop group whose members are all (usually attractive) young men” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-O-Y-B-A-N-D. The plural of boy band is boy bands or boy-bands.

What does boy band mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A pop group whose members are all (usually attractive) young men.

noun

as boy-band
  1. 1

    Alternative form of boy band.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce boy band?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-boy_band.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of boy band

  • boy bands plural
  • boy-band
  • boyband
  • boy-bands plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Words people confuse with boy band

Also written: boyband (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Boy band in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense pop group whose members are all young men:

LanguageWords
Frenchboys band
GermanBoygroup
Spanishbanda de chicos, grupo musical juvenil masculino

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.