boyband

boyband (plural boybands)

1. Alternative spelling of boy band.
   • 2003 February 28 – March 6, Metro Life Magazine (Evening Standard), page 26:

     Kay Murphy and former Boyzoner Stephen Gately, who ditches the boyband look in favour of the loincloth attire for his stage debut as Joseph.

   • 2016 August 22, Doug Criss, “5 things for Monday, August 22: Turkey, Olympics, Donald Trump”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The man who gave us all those cheesy 1990s boybands has died. Lou Pearlman was the brains behind *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys (and many other copy-and-paste acts).

   • 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.

Unadapted borrowing from English boyband.

boyband f (plural boybands)

1. boy band
   • 2017 September 12, Javier Merino, Marysabel Huston-Crespo, “Conoce a CNCO, la "boyband" urbana del momento que causa sensación en América Latina”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     Seguramente sabes que Christopher, Erick, Joel, Zabdiel y Richard son los integrantes de la boyband del momento llamada CNCO, pero si de plano nunca los habías escuchado, te diremos que esta agrupación salió de un reality musical en Estados Unidos en donde Ricky Martin fue el encargado de juntarlos y hoy en día son el fenómeno musical de Latinoamérica.

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   • 2024 October 17, CNN, “En imágenes: algunos episodios de la vida de Liam Payne”, in CNN en Español‎^[4]:

     Payne saltó a la fama como uno de los cinco miembros de One Direction, una de las boybands más exitosas de la historia moderna.

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