Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun old_boy_network

1 sense of old boy network

Sense 1
old boy network -- (an exclusive informal network linking members of a social class or profession or organization in order to provide connections and information and favors (especially in business or politics); "professional women have developed an old boy network of their own")
       => network, web -- (an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth")