paperboy
A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper roundA boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.
» Tom used to be a paperboy.
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1 sensesA 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 sentencesTom used to be a paperboy.
Tom is a paperboy.
deTom ist ein Zeitungsjunge. — doemaar14
Sami is a paperboy.
I heard in the movie "The Paperboy": "I'm going to retire." "You're not tired yet. How can you retire?"
Translations
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Origin
From paper + boy.From paper + boy.
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