office boy
noun
a person, traditionally a boy, employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
office boys
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pluralof office boy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the parade was such a spectacle that the “many imps of office boys who, from a hundred windows, began to unreel the spools of tape that record the fateful messages of the ‘ticker.’
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
She wears smart clothes, smokes in the corridors, bawls out office boys in a shrill voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The delegates in London . . . are high class office boys, maybe not even high class.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither would he contract with a Guild that included copy boys, office boys, messengers, clerks, telephone operators, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obviously, the next thing was to find out if any of the office boys had taken that letter to the Bank.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
