Stockboy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A young stockman raising livestock.

    "He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […]""

  2. 2
    A young stocker, an employee at a store stocking shelves; an entry-level retail employee.

    "He had graduated from Cregier High School two months earlier and quickly landed a job as a stockboy at Order from Horder, a stationery store chain."

Example

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"He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […]""

Etymology

From stock + boy.

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