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CABIN BOY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cabin boy mean?
• CABIN BOY (noun)
The noun CABIN BOY has 1 sense:
1. a young man acting as a servant on a ship
Familiarity information: CABIN BOY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young man acting as a servant on a ship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("cabin boy" is a kind of...):
retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))
Context examples
On the 16th, he was parted from us by a storm; I heard since my return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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