newsboy
IPA: nˈuzbɔɪ
noun
- A boy, or by extension a man, who delivers and/or sells newspapers.
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Examples of "newsboy" in Sentences
- In this case he merely remarked in a sort of "newsboy" voice:
- Swindle, 'Kenyon called a newsboy to him and bought a copy of the paper.
- Mondo's nattily attired in a black and white newsboy outfit, double swoon.
- I hadn't yet lost the feeling that a newsboy was a sort of cross between an orphan and a beggar.
- The stranger listened to the sad story; and, having finished breakfast, he called a newsboy and bought a paper.
- Ms. Vezirian, who sported a newsboy cap and a chartreuse sweater, had me strip and assume various odd positions Arms up!
- The newsboy is a most reliable employee, and the thing in him that keeps him at his arduous task generally makes him a successful man in the long run.
- Even the newsboy, inured to the short words of an unfriendly world, and usually quite indifferent thereto, was impressed by the asperity of the suggestion and moved somewhat hastily on.
- In his very first adventure with Batman, bringing to justice the small-town crime boss who killed his parents, Dick worked as a newsboy and, if I recall it right, a bowling alley pin-setter.
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