Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see young, man. / A term of endearment or address by adults for a young boy. / (dated) A male lover; a sweetheart.

(literature) Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms.