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telegraph boy

telegraph boy noun: a young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.

Noun

telegraph boy (plural telegraph boys)

  1. (historical) A 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

Forms of telegraph boy

pluraltelegraph boys

Questions about telegraph boy

What does telegraph boy mean?
Telegraph boy means a young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.
What part of speech is telegraph boy?
Telegraph boy is a noun.
What is the plural of telegraph boy?
The plural of telegraph boy is telegraph boys.

Words near telegraph boy in the dictionary

  1. telegrammic
  2. telegramming
  3. telegrams
  4. telegraph
  5. telegraph blue
  6. telegraph boy
  7. telegraph boys
  8. telegraph code
  9. telegraph codes
  10. telegraph cucumber
  11. telegraph cucumbers

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