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Boy Scout

noun

  1. member of the Boy Scouts organization for boys’ character development and citizenship training
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A male member of the Scout Movement.
  2. A man adhering to the values of honesty and idealism, and possibly somewhat naive or unworldly.

    An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club".

    But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions.