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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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