old-boyism

English

Noun

old-boyism (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of old boyism
   • 1995, Duncan Kennedy, Sexy Dressing Etc, →ISBN, page 45:

     And they serve it up with a powerful seasoning of old-boyism and arbitrary clique preference as between white males.

   • 2008, Margaret E. Beare, Honouring Social Justice, →ISBN:

     A recent president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, an organization regarded almost universally as a bastion of 'old-boyism,' was the female chief of police of Gaithersburg, Maryland.

   • 2014, Preston King, Socialism and the Common Good: New Fabian Essays, →ISBN, page 99:

     The latter are characteristically few in number, and they reciprocate government old-boyism and good-old-boyism with heart-warmineg liberal donations to conservative causes — electoral and otherwise.