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Definition of errand boy in English: errand boynoun dated 1A boy employed in a shop or office to make deliveries and run other errands. 〈旧,主英〉供差遣的童仆 Example sentencesExamples - At first, Alic worked as an errand boy, doing Danilo's bidding on a day-by-day basis.
- Euclide was a 12-year-old black kid who worked as a hustler, guide and errand boy.
- Last to be reassigned here, so I end up the errand boy.
- In the early 1970s, he worked as an errand boy for a garment factory.
- When he graduated high school, he became an errand boy on a soap opera, then a writer.
- After his expulsion, Roger began working as an errand boy for the local sheriff's office but was fired when they found out that he was stealing candy from the office leukemia fund-raising box.
- I was made to be an assassin, on my own and doing things my way, not someone's errand boy.
- Victor falls hard for the stunning Gracia, a star attraction at the Don's club, and Pascual offers Silvio a job as driver and errand boy for the owner of a strip club.
- She also pays the bills which the errand boy had been insistently presenting.
- Those in service jobs such as clerks, errand boys, messengers and telegraph operators represented another eight percent.
- Harry Pratt left school at 14 to work as an errand boy for the Gazette, and was soon promoted to the role of chief stamp-licker.
- It was the Frenchman's way of punishing Robby for treating him like an errand boy.
- But Edmund had noticed that she had sent an errand boy to pick up various presents that she had spotted in town.
- Instead, he worked as an errand boy for a bookbinder called Riebau.
- Kahn, whose practice continues in business today, started out as an errand boy for the Detroit firm, working his way up to become chief draughtsman, with no formal training whatsoever.
- The errand boy of a dealer spends his days bouncing between his girlfriend and his paranoid boss.
- Here women took on all the roles from errand boy to tradesman to love-struck lord so naturally and efficiently that it almost surprised me things had not always been run this way!
- The police were informed, and the defendant was arrested, the shop proprietor testified that they had been her slippers, and that the defendant was formerly her errand boy.
- Efforts are also made to appoint a common plumber or electrician, someone to iron clothes or even employ an errand boy.
- 1.1informal A man who is in the lowest rank of an organization.
dear lady, I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service Example sentencesExamples - The judge believes he was acting like a flunkey and errand boy for the government by backing its anti-democratic terror legislation.
- For the most part, I have settled into the role of an eager if socially-awkward errand boy, much as Jerry Lewis did before me, collecting mail, biking to the copy center and doing a fair amount of Internet research.
- What was his answer to the question, ‘He was your errand boy, you were the ringmaster’?
- It was that or become everyone's glorified errand boy, being used where needed.
- Afterwards, he eked out a living as Mafia errand boy and dope dealer before being found dead in Las Vegas, in 1970, with an ounce of heroin, a glass of vodka, a crucifix and a gun.
- Framed for her murder, Hammond tries to track down his son, but winds up becoming a reluctant errand boy for Jolson to ensure his child's survival.
- The arrested man, who supposedly served as an errand boy of the group, has confessed to placing the parcel bomb outside the airport on the orders of the detained suspects.
- I want members of the Committee to be absolutely clear about this: this is a union-driven initiative, and this man is just the errand boy.
- Neeley works in Manhattan as an errand boy for a broker friend of Sissy's, John.
- My mother liked to have me around - being the only girl, I served as a cross between maid and errand boy.
- But Smith repeats the unfair assertion, first made by Mulroney's errand boy, that the blame for its defeat falls squarely on other shoulders.
- Last year, he served as Washington's errand boy in presenting a motion denouncing Cuba before the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
- Now you're the errand boy for a potential coach, who is eager to claim credit for cleaning up a mess you created, and you might never make another personnel decision again.
- Within a short space of time he had become an unofficial political errand boy for the administration and a co-partner in its crimes.
Definition of errand boy in US English: errand boynounˈerənd ˌboi dated 1A boy employed in a shop or office to make deliveries and run other errands. 〈旧,主英〉供差遣的童仆 Example sentencesExamples - It was the Frenchman's way of punishing Robby for treating him like an errand boy.
- She also pays the bills which the errand boy had been insistently presenting.
- But Edmund had noticed that she had sent an errand boy to pick up various presents that she had spotted in town.
- I was made to be an assassin, on my own and doing things my way, not someone's errand boy.
- Here women took on all the roles from errand boy to tradesman to love-struck lord so naturally and efficiently that it almost surprised me things had not always been run this way!
- At first, Alic worked as an errand boy, doing Danilo's bidding on a day-by-day basis.
- Kahn, whose practice continues in business today, started out as an errand boy for the Detroit firm, working his way up to become chief draughtsman, with no formal training whatsoever.
- When he graduated high school, he became an errand boy on a soap opera, then a writer.
- Those in service jobs such as clerks, errand boys, messengers and telegraph operators represented another eight percent.
- Victor falls hard for the stunning Gracia, a star attraction at the Don's club, and Pascual offers Silvio a job as driver and errand boy for the owner of a strip club.
- The errand boy of a dealer spends his days bouncing between his girlfriend and his paranoid boss.
- Harry Pratt left school at 14 to work as an errand boy for the Gazette, and was soon promoted to the role of chief stamp-licker.
- Efforts are also made to appoint a common plumber or electrician, someone to iron clothes or even employ an errand boy.
- The police were informed, and the defendant was arrested, the shop proprietor testified that they had been her slippers, and that the defendant was formerly her errand boy.
- Instead, he worked as an errand boy for a bookbinder called Riebau.
- Last to be reassigned here, so I end up the errand boy.
- In the early 1970s, he worked as an errand boy for a garment factory.
- Euclide was a 12-year-old black kid who worked as a hustler, guide and errand boy.
- After his expulsion, Roger began working as an errand boy for the local sheriff's office but was fired when they found out that he was stealing candy from the office leukemia fund-raising box.
- 1.1informal A man who is in the lowest rank of an organization.
Louis was Harry's errand boy, a gofer Example sentencesExamples - What was his answer to the question, ‘He was your errand boy, you were the ringmaster’?
- It was that or become everyone's glorified errand boy, being used where needed.
- The arrested man, who supposedly served as an errand boy of the group, has confessed to placing the parcel bomb outside the airport on the orders of the detained suspects.
- Now you're the errand boy for a potential coach, who is eager to claim credit for cleaning up a mess you created, and you might never make another personnel decision again.
- Neeley works in Manhattan as an errand boy for a broker friend of Sissy's, John.
- Afterwards, he eked out a living as Mafia errand boy and dope dealer before being found dead in Las Vegas, in 1970, with an ounce of heroin, a glass of vodka, a crucifix and a gun.
- For the most part, I have settled into the role of an eager if socially-awkward errand boy, much as Jerry Lewis did before me, collecting mail, biking to the copy center and doing a fair amount of Internet research.
- The judge believes he was acting like a flunkey and errand boy for the government by backing its anti-democratic terror legislation.
- Last year, he served as Washington's errand boy in presenting a motion denouncing Cuba before the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
- Within a short space of time he had become an unofficial political errand boy for the administration and a co-partner in its crimes.
- Framed for her murder, Hammond tries to track down his son, but winds up becoming a reluctant errand boy for Jolson to ensure his child's survival.
- My mother liked to have me around - being the only girl, I served as a cross between maid and errand boy.
- But Smith repeats the unfair assertion, first made by Mulroney's errand boy, that the blame for its defeat falls squarely on other shoulders.
- I want members of the Committee to be absolutely clear about this: this is a union-driven initiative, and this man is just the errand boy.
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