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messenger boy

NOUN
  1. a boy who earns money by running errands

How To Use messenger boy In A Sentence

  • And for the first time in his career, when he smelt burning wood pulp and looked down at the line of messenger boys with a ready-made frown and caught the eyes of Mickey, the "littlest," smiling impudently at him, Skinner's Dress Suit
  • In a quiet bystreet a German band of five players in faded uniforms and with battered brass instruments was playing to an audience of street arabs and leisurely messenger boys. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • He worked his way up from messenger boy to account executive.
  • Cynics have sneeringly dismissed the latter role as that of a messenger boy, as if there were something contemptible about messenger boys.
  • And I opened -- _opened_ mind you, with four messenger boys, pat! The Fifth Ace
  • The sale had been effected by a messenger boy who had no authority to sell liquor or anything else.
  • My first experience was as a messenger boy for a firm that made both line and tone zincos - line artwork or screened photographs or combinations of both, etched into zinc and mounted on wooden blocks ready for use by letterpress printers.
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