Meaning

1 senses
  1. A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.

    Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!

    Zeitungsausträger, Zeitungsjunge

    газе́тчикgazétčik

    a boy who sells or delivers newspapers

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom used to be a paperboy.

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  2. Tom is a paperboy.

    deTom ist ein Zeitungsjunge.

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  3. Sami is a paperboy.

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  4. I heard in the movie "The Paperboy": "I'm going to retire." "You're not tired yet. How can you retire?"

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
male who delivers newspapers:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
male who delivers newspapers:

Origin

From paper + boy.

From paper + boy.

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Forms

plural: paperboys
Singularpaperboy
Pluralpaperboys

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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