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ex-boyfriend

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States

A former boyfriend.

noun

  1. 1

    A former boyfriend.

    I wish my ex-boyfriend wouldn't text me so often!

    My girlfriend's mad at me right now. Last night during sex I yelled the name of her ex-boyfriend. Nice fella!

Etymology

From ex- + boyfriend.

Forms

plural
ex-boyfriends
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).