单词 | box boy |
释义 | > as lemmasbox boy box boy n. chiefly U.S. a (typically young) male assistant in a shop or supermarket who helps customers to pack and carry their purchases; cf. bag boy n. at bag n. Additions. ΚΠ 1941 M. O. Fleming Occup. Guidance for Junior High School Pupils (M.Sc. thesis, Univ. Southern California) 51 Box boys and vegetable clerks represented 7% of the total. 1953 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 3 May a5/6 They had taken jobs—he as a grocery store box-boy, Miss Myers as a salesgirl. 2008 Vanity Fair July 127/3 [He is] a onetime supermarket boxboy who eventually parlayed ownership of several grocery chains into a fortune. < as lemmas |
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