: a boy or man employed for odd jobs in a business office
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebBorn in Queens, N.Y., Maron started as an office boy at MGM and rose to become roadshow manager. Pat Saperstein, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 My first summer job was as an office boy at a Midtown Manhattan brokerage during the 1965 bull market. Mark E. Kingdon, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021 Whitman started work as an office boy for a Brooklyn law firm, reading the novels of Sir Walter Scott in his spare time, and exploring every corner of New York. Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2019 Eventually working after school as an office boy and writing pieces for a local news service, Lee became an assistant at Timely Comics, a golden age imprint that would eventually become the infamous Marvel. Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018