| 单词 | news butcher | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasnews butcher   news butcher  n. U.S. colloquial a seller of newspapers, sweets, etc., on a train (cf. butcher n. 5). ΚΠ 1873    Little Rock 		(Arkansas)	 Daily Republican 18 July  				Some few days ago a news butcher on the Cairo and Fulton railroad..decamped with his stock in trade. 1894    Daily Ardmoreite 		(Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation)	 1 Jan. 3/1  				Ben R. Wheeler, an old time and popular news butcher on the Santa Fe..is in the city. 1930    J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 294  				He got a concession as news-butcher on the daily train. 1974    M. Hoyt Thirty Miles i. 2  				The hours dragged, but were helped..by the visits of the ‘news butcher’, a uniformed man who came through with papers, magazines, books, candy, fruit and gum for sale. < as lemmas  | 
	
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