Home › Words › S › steelboysteelboysteelboy means A member of the Hearts of Steel, a Protestant movement that originated in County Antrim, Ireland, in opposition to high rents and evictions.EtymologyFrom steel + boy.nounA member of the Hearts of Steel, a Protestant movement that originated in County Antrim, Ireland, in opposition to high rents and evictions.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.oakboy 61% match — A member of the Hearts of Oak, a protest movement of farmers and weavers that arose in County Armagh, Ireland, in 1761, in reaction to excessive taxation. vs steelboy →steelworker 52% match — A person who works in a steel mill. vs steelboy →greenboy 50% match — Synonym of Oakboy (“member of Irish protest movement”). vs steelboy →bullockite 50% match — A member of a faction of Free Will Baptists, founded by Jeremiah Bullock, which branched out to a small number of congregations in Maine and New Hampshire. vs steelboy →whiteboy 49% match — A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming. vs steelboy →stick 48% match — An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.; A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch. vs steelboy →orangey 47% match — A Protestant, especially one that is a member of the Protestant unionist community of Northern Ireland. vs steelboy →healyite 47% match — A supporter of Irish Trotskyist Gerry Healy. vs steelboy →