errand boy Meaning of "errand boy"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a boy who earns money by running errands

Usage(s):

  1. When Whistler sent his famous Artist's Mother to the 1883 Paris Salon, his bright-eyed errand boy was 23-year-old Walter Sickert.
  2. Prospects are often required to serve a stint as the gang's errand boy.
  3. On his first day of school, Juscelino, then eleven, put on his first pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy.
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