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linkboy

linkboy is the alternative form of link boy.

Meaning of link boy

Noun

link boy (plural link boys)

  1. (historical) A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets.
    • “Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    linkman, torchbearer

Forms of linkboy

plurallinkboys

Questions about linkboy

What is linkboy the alternative form of?
Linkboy is the alternative form of link boy.

Words near linkboy in the dictionary

  1. linkages
  2. linkback
  3. linkbacks
  4. linkbait
  5. linkbaiting
  6. linkboy
  7. linkboys
  8. linked
  9. linked in
  10. linked list
  11. linked lists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: linkboy (page history and authors); link 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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