ball boy

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   a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players

   Broadermale child

Questions about ball boy

What does ball boy mean?

ball boy means "a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players".

Is ball boy a common word?

ball boy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.