copyboy

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A form of copy boy — A boy employed to carry copy and run errands.

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Meanings

nouncopyboy (plural copyboys)

plural copyboys

  1. alternativeAlternative form of copy boy.

    Seeing him for the first time in the halls of the New Yorker, where he served a stint as a copyboy, editor Harold Ross exclaimed, "For God's sake! What's that?"

    1988 July 22, Sean Elder, “Reading: Two Trumans”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

From copy + boy.

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Cite this entry
APA

copyboy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copyboy

MLA

“copyboy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copyboy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “copyboy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copyboy.

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