cabin boy

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   a young man acting as a servant on a ship

   Broaderservant

Questions about cabin boy

What does cabin boy mean?

cabin boy means "a young man acting as a servant on a ship".

Is cabin boy a common word?

cabin 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.