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cabinboy

cabinboy is the alternative form of cabin boy.

Meaning of cabin boy

Noun

cabin boy (plural cabin boys)

  1. (dated) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ship.
    Synonyms:
    ship's boy, shipboy
  2. (dated) A male flight attendant.

Forms of cabinboy

pluralcabinboys

Questions about cabinboy

What is cabinboy the alternative form of?
Cabinboy is the alternative form of cabin boy.

Words near cabinboy in the dictionary

  1. cabin-boys
  2. cabin-class
  3. cabin-cruiser
  4. cabin-cruisers
  5. cabin-fevered
  6. cabinboy
  7. cabinboys
  8. Cabinda
  9. Cabindan
  10. Cabindans
  11. cabined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabinboy (page history and authors); cabin boy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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