Definition of Delivery boy

1. Noun. Someone employed to make deliveries.

Exact synonyms: Deliverer, Deliveryman
Specialized synonyms: Carrier, Newsboy, Coalman, Grocery Boy, Iceman, Carrier, Letter Carrier, Mail Carrier, Mailman, Postman, Milkman, Paperboy
Generic synonyms: Employee
Derivative terms: Deliver

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delivery Boy

deliveredst
deliverer
deliverers
deliveress
deliveresses
deliverest
delivereth
deliveries
delivering
delivering the message to Garcia
deliverly
deliverness
delivers
delivers the message to Garcia
delivery
delivery boy (current term)
delivery of health care
delivery room
delivery rooms
delivery system
delivery truck
delivery van
deliveryman
deliverymen
deliverypeople
deliveryperson
deliverypersons
delivr'd
delivraunce
delivre

Literary usage of Delivery boy

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

1. Your Problems and Mine in the Guidance of Youth: A Casebook for Teachers and by John Kay Stableton (1922)
"After talking with the delivery boy, we sent him for a little visit to the drawing ... The delivery boy said: "Yes, he is the boy who gave me the board. ..."

2. The Making of a Merchant by Harlow Niles Higinbotham (1906)
"The right kind of a delivery boy has many times been able to hold the trade of ... The delivery boy who is a natural "hustler" is a tower of strength in the ..."

3. Socializing the Three R's by Ruth Mary Weeks (1919)
"These must agree, and the delivery boy must make change. Whoever first sees and corrects an error becomes delivery boy. This game is played with real money ..."

4. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"delivery boy—Catching Hold of Rear End of Truck.—A delivery boy was furnished a bicycle with which to do his work. He was given permission to get his ..."

5. Bulletin by National Society for Vocational Education (1916)
"Ill I IV I HI DEPARTMENT The delivery boy is the salesman of the laundry business. The delivery boy deals directly with the patrons of the laundry and is, ..."

6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1897)
"A delivery boy about thirteen years of age employed in a mercantile establishment who Is required to ascend and descend from one floor to another on an ..."

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