errand boy

noun

1. (in Britain, esp formerly) a boy employed by a shopkeeper to deliver goods and run other errands

Example Sentences

Like, say, maintaining his X-rated shrubbery or reanimating dead flesh into a lumbering errand boy.

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When the Nazis came that night, she recognized one of them as a former errand boy of the business.

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Besides serving as a reliably funny recurring bit, this is telling: between the ancient vampire newcomer and the errand boy who's been cleaning up after them for more than 13 years, Guillermo rates more highly.

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The judge said that while Treanor has been described as "an errand boy", it was euphemism that "doesn't sit well with the gravity of the offence".

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The translators and linguists said that in the context of Mr. Leão’s insult, it could be translated as the centrão’s lap dog or errand boy, or as an epithet referring to a female dog.

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