cash boy

English

Alternative forms

cashboy, cash-boy

Noun

cash boy (plural cash boys)

1. (US, dated or historical, informal) In large retail stores, a male messenger who carried the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returned with the change.

References

• “cash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.