A boy or young man who is employed to carry messages.
I started off as a messenger boy for a fashion magazine
Example sentencesExamples
- Though he says his job is to be the "messenger boy" it is much more important than that.
- At the height of the fighting, messenger boys could not be used simply because of the dangers involved.
- He became a telegraph messenger boy at the age of 14.
- Starting as a messenger boy, he worked his way up in an advertising agency before starting his own media agency.
- I'm just the messenger boy - I had no say in it at all.
- This was when shops employed messenger boys on bicycles.
- At the age of ten he had started working for the New South Wales postal services as a messenger boy.
- His six-decade career saw him rise from messenger boy to chief executive of the newspaper group.
- At age 19, he began working as a messenger boy for British Gaumont.
- He was given a job as a messenger boy.
- He's just the messenger boy for the greedy corporate interests.