telegraph boy

noun

noun

Historical A young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.

It was a telegraph-boy with a wire which had been forwarded from my lodgings at Streatham.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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