telegraph boy

English

Noun

telegraph boy (plural telegraph boys)

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

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