newsboy
[nooz-boi, nyooz-]
- a person, typically a boy, who sells or delivers newspapers.
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Origin of newsboy
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Contemporary Examples
Giulavogui cried, 55 years old and less than a decade in America, but sounding like a Gotham newsboy from another era.
Historical Examples
A newsboy going down Whitehall was calling an evening paper.
The ChristianHall Caine
Then, as he hastened toward a telephone-booth, he ran into a newsboy.
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
On the way, I intrusted a newsboy with an English shilling to go and get me change.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Off darted the newsboy, to be lost in the crowd on the other side of the street.
From Farm to FortuneHoratio Alger Jr.
newsboy
- a boy who sells or delivers newspapers
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