Crossword clues for newsboy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
newsboy \news"boy`\, n. A boy who distributes or sells newspapers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A boy, or by extension a man, who delivers and/or sells newspapers.
WordNet
n. a boy who delivers newspapers [syn: carrier]
Wikipedia
Newsboy may refer to:
Usage examples of "newsboy".
Which of the newsboys, the cyclo drivers, the soup peddlers might be the enemy?
John Macnab became a slogan for the newsboy, a flaming legend for bills and headlines, a subject of delighted talk at every breakfast-table.
As the heart and soul of the British printing industry, Fleet Street was clogged by literally hundreds of newspaper reporters, ink-stained printers' journeymen and apprentices, bootblacks, newsboys scurrying along with stacks of the latest editions piled high, and women of dubious status all jostling elbows as they fought for space in the pubs, comandeered hansom cabs, and paid street urchins to run errands for them—all struggling to outwit one another in the business of keeping the Empire apprised of the latest news.
Beggars pleaded, touts wheedled, peddlers hawked, newsboys shouted, bootblacks chanted.
This unusual conduct attracted the attention of his cronies, and a number of newsboys gathered about him trying to find out the reason of his strange idleness.
The marked papers had been delivered before the newsboys did their rounds and no one had seen who delivered them.
I don’t know what time the papers get to the shops in Cambridge, but not a great deal before five, I shouldn’t think, and there couldn’t have been much time for anyone to buy twenty or so papers in Cambridge and deliver them, folded and marked, to addresses all over Newmarket, twenty miles away, before the newsboys here started on their rounds.
He was straining his ears to understand the headlines the distant newsboys were shouting.
He and Edge were atop his rockaway, Daphne and Sunday riding inside, and, when they got as far as the boulevard de Courcelles, they found ragamuffin newsboys running about in unusual excitement, waving their newspapers and shouting, "Querelle à Prusse!
They were jabbering excitedly, as the newsboys ran among them, wildly waving their newspapers and barking more loudly than ever: "Guerre!
Crowds poured into the streets, to seize the still-wet newspapers flung by the newsboys bawling "Grande victoire!
They do say--I do not vouch for it--but they do say that men sometimes print a vast edition of a paper, with a ferociously seditious article in it, distribute it quickly among the newsboys, and clear out till the Government's indignation cools.
The newsboys were, however, using other means to cry their papers, and I knew relief.
At Indiana Avenue he parked his car, bought a Star from a newsboy, went into a drugstore, sat down at the soda fountain, ordered a cherry phosphate to justify his presence, looked at the newspaper.