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Grocery boy

noun

A delivery boy for groceries.

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"Grocery boy" Quotes from Famous Books

... step into a neat and attractive modern apartment kitchen, say three years ago. The grocery boy had just left. Everything was there, and of unusually good quality—crisp lettuce, golden oranges, the inevitable loaf of whole wheat bread, the sugar and lemons—and as the housekeeper compared the articles with the grocer's ...

— Edward MacDowell • Elizabeth Fry Page

... on talking in this unpleasant way for some time, only, just then, up the side drive came Mr. Gordon's grocery wagon, with Tommie Tobin, the grocery boy, on the seat ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home • Laura Lee Hope

... double parlor. The plan had been to serve coffee there, but as people stood about waiting and this did not appear, Paul drew Lydia to one side to ask her about it. She looked at him with bright, blank eyes, and spoke in an expressionless voice: "The grocery boy forgot to deliver the coffee," she said. "There ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

Words linked to "Grocery boy" : deliverer, delivery boy, deliveryman