B-boying is an urban name for breakdancing. People that study breakdancing from all aspects and generally live the Hiphop culture prefer to call breakdancing B-boying, simply because they fought breakdancing became to commercial and people that could do one move would call themselves b-boys or breakers. This is perticaly annoying to people that have focused all their lives on hiphop and then some guys think their bangin or cool because they can do a simple move. This is why most b-boys refer to breakdancing as B-boying.
A participant in hip hop street culture is called B Boy. This vogue term (the female counterpart is fly-girl) became widespread around 1982, but was first coined in the late 1970s. The initial probably stood for ‘brother’ as a term of address, or for ‘break-dancer’.
The female counterpart of a B-boy. Fly-girl is a more common synonym.
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