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newsboy

[nooz-boi, nyooz-]

news·boy

[nooz-boi, nyooz-]
noun
a person, typically a boy, who sells or delivers newspapers.

Origin:
1755–65; news + boy
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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newsboy (ˈnjuːzˌbɔɪ)
 
n
a boy who sells or delivers newspapers

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