ELEVATOR BOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elevator boy mean? 

• ELEVATOR BOY (noun)
  The noun ELEVATOR BOY has 1 sense:

1. a man employed to operate an elevator

  Familiarity information: ELEVATOR BOY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEVATOR BOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man employed to operate an elevator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

elevator boy; elevator man; liftman

Context example:

in England they call an elevator man a liftman

Hypernyms ("elevator boy" is a kind of...):

elevator operator (an operator of an elevator)

 Context examples 

The door that I pushed open on the advice of an elevator boy was marked "The Swastika Holding Company" and at first there didn't seem to be any one inside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Keep your hands off the lever," snapped the elevator boy.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A reluctant elevator boy went for a box full of straw and some milk to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large hard dog biscuits—one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)