2. Noun. (dated) A bellhop. ¹
3. Noun. (theater) A boy or man who summons actors when their presence is required for a performance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Callboy
1. a bellboy [n -BOYS] - See also: bellboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callboy
Literary usage of Callboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Started as callboy in San Francisco with James O'Neill in "The Count of Monte
Cristo"; co- starred with Fannie Brice; leading comedian in Music Box revues; ..."
2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Even before he left school in. the early seventies his mind was on the theatre,
and during the next few years he was callboy, actor, stage manager, adaptor, ..."
3. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"This sitting down business is not acting: the callboy could do it; but we are so
thoroughly primed by the playbill, the scene-painter, the stage-manager, ..."
4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"He had been callboy at the Park Theatre, was formerly in the circus, had walked
the wire and stood on bis head, went to England with Edwin Forrest as ..."
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