• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Going out for drinks with the boys is almost always with adult men. A girls night out is often with adult women. We use boys and girls regularly to refer to adults depending on the context.

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      8 months ago

      There’s also an entire genre of literature aimed at older children called young adult.