copyboy

See also: copy boy

English

Etymology

From copy +‎ boy.

Noun

copyboy (plural copyboys)

1. Alternative form of copy boy.
   • 1988 July 22, Sean Elder, “Reading: Two Trumans”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     Seeing him for the first time in the halls of the New Yorker, where he served a stint as a copyboy, editor Harold Ross exclaimed, "For God's sake! What's that?"