paperboy
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈpeɪpərˌbɔɪ/
- Archaic
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repartidor de periódicos
- When I was a teenager, I worked as a paperboy, delivering newspapers every morning before school.
- kill a paperboy
- paperboy tossing
- pay the paperboy
Who is he's a paperboy from Helsinki, right?
- Who is he's a paperboy from Helsinki, right?
- Imagine you a fucking paperboy and you got to sing too on the on, you know, an afternoon shift.
Examples
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A paperboy came by, on foot, walking the route with a cloth bag over his shoulder.
Fiction book (1999) -
A young paperboy rides past and throws the paper, hitting Dirk in the head.
Fiction book (1997) -
I was a paperboy then... and I used to bring his paper to his room.
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I worked my way up in life starting as a paperboy on a bicycle after school.
Blog text (13) -
The circulation manager of the Tribune was once a paperboy himself.
Fiction book (1997) -
I remember I was a 14-year-old paperboy... ...delivering the Evening Outlook.
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The paperboy came back and dropped his bike on Mrs. Greenberg's perfect lawn.
Fiction book (1999) -
A paperboy on a wood-and-stone bicycle is coming rapidly toward the house.
Fiction book (1994) -
I recall one way back when I was a paperboy during predawn deliveries in November of 1966.
Blog text (4) -
A block away, a paperboy on a mountain bike flung a newspaper and gestured a one-handed "thumbs-up" to me.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word paperboy comes from the two simple parts paper and boy, where paper means 'newspaper' and boy means 'a young male'. So a paperboy is a boy or young man who delivers newspapers to houses, which is exactly how the word is used today.