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poolboy

poolboy is the alternative form of pool boy.

Meaning of pool boy

Noun

pool boy (plural pool boys)

  1. (informal) A man employed to clean and maintain a swimming pool.
  2. (derogatory, slang, uncommon) A male who is a pushover or who cleans up after another's mess.

Forms of poolboy

pluralpoolboys

Questions about poolboy

What is poolboy the alternative form of?
Poolboy is the alternative form of pool boy.

Words near poolboy in the dictionary

  1. pool-like
  2. poolability
  3. poolable
  4. Poolaijelo
  5. Poolaw
  6. poolboy
  7. poolboys
  8. poolbundi
  9. poolbundy
  10. Poole
  11. pooled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poolboy (page history and authors); pool 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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