errand boy

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   a boy who earns money by running errands

   Synonymsmessenger boy

   Broadermessenger

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Questions about errand boy

What does errand boy mean?

errand boy means "a boy who earns money by running errands".

What is another word for errand boy?

Close synonyms include messenger boy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is errand boy a common word?

errand boy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.