newsboy
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newsboy
Example Sentences
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That’s when I saw an unfamiliar person wearing thick reading glasses and a newsboy cap.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2024
He almost always appeared on camera wearing a hat, typically a wool newsboy or baseball cap.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022
His dimples barely visible under a light stubble, a newsboy cap perched on his head, Garcia-Rulfo, 41, sounded simultaneously startled and excited, perhaps even a little disbelieving, by the turn his career had just taken.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
He took jobs as a newsboy, cannery and packing shed laborer, social work aide, interpreter, Boys Club organizer, elementary school teacher, co-director of a progressive elementary school and education specialist with the Pan American Union.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021
The paper cost fifteen cents, and I sold it myself, going from class to class and standing in the hallways, hawking it like a newsboy.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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