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/ˈɔfəs bɔɪ/ Listen

Office boy

noun

A young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office.

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"Office boy" Quotes from Famous Books

... looking around him anxiously, "that I've taken to reading Ruskin? I've got a copy of 'The Seven Lamps' at the office, and I can't keep away from it. I slip it into my drawer if any one comes in, like an office boy reading the Police Gazette. All the time I am in the streets I am looking at the buildings, and, Burton, this is the extraordinary part of it, I know no more about architecture than a babe unborn, ...

— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... sent an office boy for Czenki, who a few minutes later appeared with an inquiry in his beady black eyes and a nod of ...

— The Diamond Master • Jacques Futrelle

... man, you know, usually grows up from office boy to cashier, and from cashier to bookkeeper, from bookkeeper to assistant credit man and then to credit man himself. Most of them have never been away from the place they were born in, and about all they know is what they have ...

— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson

... the office of the general manager he was met by an office boy who knew and worshipped him from afar, and in five minutes he was closeted with that official, who ...

— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond

... marked and full of character, and bronzed even at this season by out-of-door living, hurried across the street and entered the busy doorway of the Railway Exchange Building. On the seventh floor he unceremoniously flung open a door bearing the number sought, and stepped within to confront the office boy, who as instantly frowned ...

— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

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