Definitions

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  • noun A young stockman.

Etymologies

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stock +‎ boy

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Examples

  • I don't think it is likely that some stockboy put 60 cartons in that way on accident.

    Mind Those Milk Expiration Dates - The Consumerist 2010

  • After I leave the factory, I go to the Jewel supermarket on Morse Avenue and work some more, as a stockboy.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

  • There was an instant assumption of duties – another shopper bent down to see if she was okay, I hit 911 because I already had my phone in my hand, the manager got a roll of paper towels to cradle her neck, and a stockboy headed outside to flag the EMT.

    Wednesday, Jan. 20 – The Bleat. 2010

  • It's marginally better than it used to be, but it's still terribly one-sided, which is why you had all these news stories about rock stars with four or five hit records still going broke because they were each making less than what they would have made as a stockboy at Walgreen's.

    Why Advances Matter jimhines 2010

  • Certainly not someone to make demands to a multinational corporation I am not even a stockboy at that they manage their own business differently.

    Deck the Halls with YEN PLUS! 2009

  • I was a stockboy for them when I was 35 and then got canned for stealing cookies

    She Calls Me Bukowski 2007

  • Sibyl's nephew, a stockboy for the store, tries to do some sleuthing into the matter; instead, he's caught and held for ransom.

    MERCHANT OF MURDER by Spencer Dean (Pocket 1960) 2007

  • He followed the stockboy, who insisted on pushing one of the carts and then complained about how it steered on the packed snow.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • The stockboy was trundling the shopping carts back to the store.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • Since earlier today I had a Pottery Barn Kids stockboy ask me, "So did you ever think you'd get this great [Carolina] education and end up a homemaker?" ... please let my poor SAHM-addled brain play, too.

    impaled gail, lynched lyndon 2007

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