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/grˈoʊsəri bɔɪ/ Listen

Grocery boy

noun

A delivery boy for groceries.

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"Grocery boy" Quotes from Famous Books

... on talking in this unpleasant way for some time, only, just then, up the side drive came Mr. Gordon's grocery wagon, with Tommie Tobin, the grocery boy, on the seat ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home • Laura Lee Hope

... but no more a part of them than if they had been living in a tomb. The card of warning on the door sent all the neighbors in the block scurrying off in a panic to Palm Beach or Europe; and even the strangers passed by on the other side. The grocery boy and the milkman left their orders hurriedly on the front steps and Michael and Starr might almost have used the street for an exercise ground if they had chosen, so deserted had ...

— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill

... step into a neat and attractive modern apartment kitchen, say three years ago. The grocery boy had just left. Everything was there, and of unusually good quality—crisp lettuce, golden oranges, the inevitable loaf of whole wheat bread, the sugar and lemons—and as the housekeeper compared the articles with the grocer's ...

— Edward MacDowell • Elizabeth Fry Page

... double parlor. The plan had been to serve coffee there, but as people stood about waiting and this did not appear, Paul drew Lydia to one side to ask her about it. She looked at him with bright, blank eyes, and spoke in an expressionless voice: "The grocery boy forgot to deliver the coffee," she said. "There ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield