news butcher

English

Noun

news butcher (plural news butchers)

  1. (US, historical) A person who worked on railroads selling newspapers, candy and cigars to the passengers.
    • 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎:
      It was a guy named Bishop and she'd met him on the trip up. The news butcher introduced them, I guess.
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