What is a "good old boy"?

Zbeckabee

Good ol' boy is a slang term used in the United States and Canada, either to self-identify as or to refer to a male, usually white and of Northern/Western-European descent, who lives in a rural area and/or subscribes to a traditionally "rural" lifestyle. The term is generally thought to originate in the rural areas of the southern and southwestern U.S. While other terms such as redneck, hick, yokel, "Bubba", and "white trash" are also applied, though usually pejoratively and are often interchanged with "good ol' boy," the "good ol' boy" is more of an idealized image of rural Americans. Politically, good ol' boy refers to representatives that engage in cronyism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_old_boy Mar 18 10, 10:44 PM

lmcava

Good Old Boy is also used in the country of Bedfordshire to describe a man ( usually elderly) who either goes out of his way to be helpful/reliable etc, or who typifies a local hard working man. Mar 19 10, 7:49 AM