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DELIVERY BOY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does delivery boy mean?
• DELIVERY BOY (noun)
The noun DELIVERY BOY has 1 sense:
1. someone employed to make deliveries
Familiarity information: DELIVERY BOY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone employed to make deliveries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman
Hypernyms ("delivery boy" is a kind of...):
employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery boy"):
carrier; newsboy (a boy who delivers newspapers)
coalman (someone who delivers coal)
grocery boy (a delivery boy for groceries)
iceman (someone who cuts and delivers ice)
carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman (a man who delivers the mail)
milkman (someone who delivers milk)
paperboy (a boy who sells or delivers newspapers)
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