shop boy

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   a young male shop assistant

   Broadersalesclerkmale child

Questions about shop boy

What does shop boy mean?

shop boy means "a young male shop assistant".

Is shop boy a common word?

shop 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.