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Boy Scouts   /bɔɪ skaʊts/   Listen
Boy Scouts

noun
1.
An international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys.



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"Boy scouts" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bass, Mr. Edwin Goodno, of the meat market and the Boy Scouts. "Heaven and earth, are full—" His chin, large and fleshy, buried itself deep; his eyes were glued on the ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... bread, a merchant or so; boxes of servants, boxes of street traffic, smart sets, and so forth. We could do with a judge and lawyers, or a box of vestrymen. It is true that we can buy Salvation Army lasses and football players, but we are cold to both of these. We have, of course, boy scouts. With such boxes of civilians we could have much more fun than with the running, marching, swashbuckling soldiery that pervades us. They drive us to reviews; and it is only emperors, kings, and very silly ...
— Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" • H. G. Wells

... just as comfortable as we would be in tents, too. The Boy Scouts use these lean-tos very often when they are in the woods, you know. They just build them up against ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the March - Bessie King's Test of Friendship • Jane L. Stewart

... a whole corps it seemed of Red Cross nurses, followed by a regiment of merry sailor boys. There were cowboys and Boy Scouts, boys in overalls and brownies. There were girls in liberty caps, ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... powerful romances that have come from Mr. Henty's pen. When the war breaks out, the hero, Chris King, and his friends band themselves together under the title of the Maritzburg Scouts. From first to last the boy scouts are constantly engaged in perilous and exciting enterprises, from which they always emerge triumphant, thanks to their own skill and courage, and the dash ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty


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