cabin boy
a boy employed as a servant for the officers and passengers on a ship.
Origin of cabin boy
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How to use cabin boy in a sentence
In the special, Workman plays the old man who, as a cabin boy, watched the pirates bury their treasure.
Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons | Rich Goldstein | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe stars alongside eternal comedy underdog Chris Elliot (Get a Life, cabin boy) and Maria Thayer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall).
Brett Gelman Has Dinner with Your Favorite TV Sidekicks | Rich Goldstein | April 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe sound was close by, and yet it did not come from the cabin boy, for he was all doubled up laughing, his face as red as a beet.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall SaundersI heard him mutter, "Beelzebub, prince of devils," so I suppose the cabin boy had given his bird a bad name.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall SaundersMr. Morris looked kindly at the cabin boy "Do you ever call the parrot by her whole name?"
Beautiful Joe | Marshall Saunders
This caveat duly lodged, he descended to the deck of his sloop, where he found the cabin boy shaking as with an ague.
Duffels | Edward EgglestonDesirous then of providing for his own support, he went to sea and spent three years as cabin boy and sailor.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2) | William Denison Lyman
British Dictionary definitions for cabin boy
a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
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