"newsboy" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-newsboy.wav Forms: newsboys [plural]
Etymology: From news + boy. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|news|boy}} news + boy Head templates: {{en-noun}} newsboy (plural newsboys)
  1. A boy, or by extension a man, who sells and/or delivers newspapers. Categories (topical): Male people Synonyms: paperboy (english: delivery)
    Sense id: en-newsboy-en-noun-en:boy_or_man_who_sells_newspapers Disambiguation of Male people: 49 51
  2. Ellipsis of newsboy cap. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: newsboy cap Categories (topical): Male people, Occupations
    Sense id: en-newsboy-en-noun-en:newsboy_cap__elliptically Disambiguation of Male people: 49 51 Disambiguation of Occupations: 29 71 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: newsboy cap Related terms: newshound, newsmonger, newsstand

Inflected forms

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