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stockboys

stockboys is the plural of stockboy.

Meaning of stockboy

Noun

stockboy (plural stockboys)

  1. A young stockman raising livestock.
    • He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […]"1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 85
  2. A young stocker, an employee at a store stocking shelves; an entry-level retail employee.
    • He had graduated from Cregier High School two months earlier and quickly landed a job as a stockboy at Order from Horder, a stationery store chain.1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There are no Children Here, page 194

Questions about stockboys

What is stockboys the plural of?
Stockboys is the plural of stockboy.

Words near stockboys in the dictionary

  1. stockateer
  2. stockateers
  3. stockbook
  4. stockbooks
  5. stockboy
  6. stockboys
  7. stockbreeder
  8. stockbreeders
  9. stockbreeding
  10. Stockbridge
  11. stockbroker

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