barrow-boy
[ bar-oh-boi ]
/ ˈbær oʊˌbɔɪ /
noun British.
a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.
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Origin of barrow-boy
First recorded in 1935–40
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How to use barrow-boy in a sentence
In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.
This is Bey and Nicki at their most lyrically masochistic, and boy, is it a treat.
Interviews in Serial (including ones from Adnan) do acknowledge that Jay was known as a resident bad boy at Woodlawn High School.
The former Virginia governor was once the golden boy of the GOP.
A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.
Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.
Several times after this the boy and his sisters came to look down into the pig pen.
British Dictionary definitions for barrow-boy
noun
British a man who sells his wares from a barrow; street vendor
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