telegraph boy

English

Noun

telegraph boy (plural telegraph boys)

1. (historical) A young male employed to notify people about incoming telegraphic messages.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     It was a telegraph-boy with a wire which had been forwarded from my lodgings at Streatham.