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- noun Plural form of
paperboy .
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Examples
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In a Hollywood-worthy production, horses and actors dressed as Bolshevik peasants plodded through a faux countryside of high grass, paperboys handed out pamphlets and—as the night progressed—Soviet soldiers marched on the party as the Flohr family's coterie nibbled on hors d'oeuvres.
The Jet Set Stacy Meichtry 2012
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Memo to Circulation Department: What happened to our paperboys?
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On his first day at work, at the age of 12, the future Czar hogtied the other paperboys, soaked them with borscht, and set their newspapers on fire.
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On his first day at work, at the age of 12, the future Czar hogtied the other paperboys, soaked them with borscht, and set their newspapers on fire.
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And, while paperboys are supposed to be an endangered species, not only does the county still have them: they come versed in local folklore too.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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The Victory Garden at the American History Museum is designed to show off heirloom varieties of vegetables, those that would have graced tables in an age when presidents openly smoked, houses cost $30,000 and city streets had paperboys.
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Yet papers insist on running headlines as if paperboys were still out there on the streets screaming, "Extra!"
Marcia Meier: Jackson's Death Once Again Shows Newspapers Are Irrelevant 2009
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The notion that I can just let news “come to *me*”, rather than the other way around, is new indeed although not without precedent – paperboys deliver newspapers without being asked each day, I let evening news bulletins kick in when the scheduler says so…
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The struggles faced by regional newspapers in the United States—and now in the United Kingdom—does not affect simply the owners and reporters and paperboys; it affects what citizens can know.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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Partly it's that we're both from Pittsburgh, and both began our careers as paperboys for the Pittsburgh Press.
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