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GROCERY BOY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grocery boy mean?
• GROCERY BOY (noun)
The noun GROCERY BOY has 1 sense:
1. a delivery boy for groceries
Familiarity information: GROCERY BOY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A delivery boy for groceries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("grocery boy" is a kind of...):
deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman (someone employed to make deliveries)
Context examples
The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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