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Goy means a non-jewish nation or person. Goyim is plural.
"She is a Goy" (she's not Jewish)
"They're Goyim" (they're all non Jewish)
It doesn't necessarily have a negative meaning to it but it can in certain contexts just like your example of "boy". You can refer to a boy that way, or it can be used to be racist and denigrate a black man.
So is it being used as slang outside the context of describing people as non-Jewish? I grew up in Skokie, IL, so I was familiar with the yiddish term, but I haven't heard this new usage. Are non-jewish kids online using "goyim" to refer to outsiders of some other in-group?
It's mostly used by Jews and Yiddish speakers afaik
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