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Definition of Copyboy
1. an office boy [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copyboy
Literary usage of Copyboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"He would glance at the work, occasionally make a few corrections, then pass them
to a copyboy who put them in a pneumatic tube for delivery to the battery ..."
2. Face to Face by Jeff W. O'Connell, Gabrielle Warnock (2000)
"TIM PAT COOGAN 1935- Educated at Blackrock College, he joined The Evening Press
as a copyboy in 1954. Became editor of The Irish Press (now defunct) in 1968 ..."
3. Larue's Maneuvers by James Isaiah Gabbe (2007)
"... copyboy detoured me to Joe Knight's office. Knight, the managing editor, was
a chubby, affable guy and a beer-drinking chum. Doubtless, he was going to ..."
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