i. e Boys, a name applied to a class of noisy young men of the lower ranks of society in the city of New York.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, April 12, 1847, in speaking of the approaching election, uses the following language:
All the b'hoys will vote, aye, more than all. Let every Whig do his duty. Another year with a Democratic Mayor--and such a Mayor as the b'hoys would force upon the city! Who can tell what the taxes will be?