OFFICE BOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does office boy mean? 

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

1. a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFICE BOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

 Context examples 

He worked, so father says, as no other office boy he ever had.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He decided upon the law, and he entered father's office as an office boy—think of that!—and got only four dollars a week.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But he did not meet that exalted personage, thanks to a Cerberus of an office boy, of tender years and red hair, who guarded the portals.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He could not believe that a sane editor could be guilty of such maltreatment, and his favorite hypothesis was that his poems must have been doctored by the office boy or the stenographer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)