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- n. a boy who earns money by running errands
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“But twenty years was twenty years away from today, and today he was a gorgeous messenger boy playing Cavaliers and Roundheads at the Double R Society's dress rehearsal of the storming of Standingham Castle, no less and no more.”
“She'd stopped at a messenger-service office, she said, soon after she'd left me, and sent a handwritten note by messenger boy to her aunt.”
“The legendary newspaper correspondent Richard Harding Davis was delegating when he hired a London messenger boy in 1915 to deliver invitations to a party.”
“I finished, making notes in the margins for the final job, stood looking at it, and a messenger boy in a brass-buttoned blue uniform stopped for a moment, looked at my sketch, nodded at me, and walked on.”
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