golden boy
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Noun
golden boy (plural golden boys)
- A young man who has become unusually successful at an early age.
- Bill Gates was the golden boy of the software industry in the early 1980s.
- A favored youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
- He was the golden boy of Montana politics.
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