copyboy

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English

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Etymology

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From copy +‎ boy.

Noun

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copyboy (plural copyboys)

  1. Alternative form of copy boy
    • 1988 July 22, Sean Elder, “Reading: Two Trumans”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Seeing him for the first time in the halls of the New Yorker, where he served a stint as a copyboy, editor Harold Ross exclaimed, "For God's sake! What's that?"