news butcher

English

Noun

news butcher (plural news butchers)

1. (US, historical) A person who worked on railroads selling newspapers, candy and cigars to the passengers.
   • 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎^[1]:

     It was a guy named Bishop and she'd met him on the trip up. The news butcher introduced them, I guess.