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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who tells performers when it is time for them to go on stage.
- noun A bellhop.
- noun A male prostitute who arranges appointments by telephone or computer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boy whose duty it is to call actors upon the stage at the proper moment.
- noun A boy who repeats the orders of the captain of a steamboat to the engineer.
- noun A boy who answers a call-bell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
callboy .
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