• 1. a youthful male person [boy, male child]
• 2. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [teenager, adolescent, stripling, teen]
• 3. a teenager or a young adult male [young man, young buck]
• 4. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman [young man, beau, boyfriend, swain, fellow]

* This word is used more widely in Bosnia, Croatia & Montenegro.

Dialect variation: дечко

See also дјечак.