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DELIVERY BOY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed to make deliveries

Synonyms:

deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("delivery boy" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "delivery boy"):

carrier; newsboy (a boy who delivers newspapers)

coalman (someone who delivers coal)

grocery boy (a delivery boy for groceries)

iceman (someone who cuts and delivers ice)

carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman (a man who delivers the mail)

milkman (someone who delivers milk)

paperboy (a boy who sells or delivers newspapers)

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