Phrase guide
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noun
a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: BL
Antonyms: none provided
History
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from boys + love.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
