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telegraph boys

telegraph boys is the plural of telegraph boy.

Meaning of telegraph boy

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

Questions about telegraph boys

What is telegraph boys the plural of?
Telegraph boys is the plural of telegraph boy.

Words near telegraph boys in the dictionary

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

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