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.