Definition of Callboy

1. Noun. (euphemistic) A male prostitute. ¹

2. Noun. (dated) A bellhop. ¹

3. Noun. (theater) A boy or man who summons actors when their presence is required for a performance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Callboy

1. a bellboy [n -BOYS] - See also: bellboy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Callboy

callable bond
callable bonds
callables
callaghanite
callaloo
callaloos
callan
callans
callant
callants
callathump
callback
callbacks
callboard
callboards
callboys
called
called for
called in
called off
called out
called to mind
called to order
called to the bar
called up
calledst
callee
callees
caller

Literary usage of Callboy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Started as callboy in San Francisco with James O'Neill in "The Count of Monte Cristo"; co- starred with Fannie Brice; leading comedian in Music Box revues; ..."

2. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Even before he left school in. the early seventies his mind was on the theatre, and during the next few years he was callboy, actor, stage manager, adaptor, ..."

3. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"This sitting down business is not acting: the callboy could do it; but we are so thoroughly primed by the playbill, the scene-painter, the stage-manager, ..."

4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"He had been callboy at the Park Theatre, was formerly in the circus, had walked the wire and stood on bis head, went to England with Edwin Forrest as ..."

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