telegraph boy

noun

A young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.

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Meanings

nountelegraph boy (plural telegraph boys)

plural telegraph boys

  1. historicalA young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.

    It was a telegraph-boy with a wire which had been forwarded from my lodgings at Streatham.

    1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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