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errand boy

NOUN
  1. a boy who earns money by running errands

How To Use errand boy In A Sentence

  • I was a little unnoticed "shaver" -- the errand boy of the house -- not quite ten years old. My Own Life Story
  • Within a short space of time he had become an unofficial political errand boy for the administration and a co-partner in its crimes.
  • I must praise the men who were engaged in this business, for they were not only teamsters, but errand boys -- expressmen we would call them now -- as well as purchasers of provender and general commercial agents of the Association; and their combined tasks were hard and difficult. Brook Farm
  • Porters, hucksters, errand boys went through with basket and handbarrow, passing across aisles and nave before the very screen that shut in choir and altar. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
  • a speedy errand boy
  • As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaiter and errand boy. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
  • But by the end of 1941, these impressive-sounding titles were largely fictions: Hitler was running the war, dealing directly with his field commanders, and using men like Jodl as errand boys and Keitel as a sort of glorified secretary. Deathride
  • In civics classes, world politicians are elected to serve their constituencies and the nation, not to serve as errand boys for the moneyed classes.
  • The most accomplished of the boys is Mir Wais Ahmad, 17, who said he earns about $10 a day as an instructor and all-around errand boy.
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