Definition of "messenger boy" []

• A boy who earns money by running errands (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "She'd stopped at a messenger-service office, she said, soon after she'd left me, and sent a handwritten note by messenger boy to her aunt."
• "The legendary newspaper correspondent Richard Harding Davis was delegating when he hired a London messenger boy in 1915 to deliver invitations to a party."
• "I finished, making notes in the margins for the final job, stood looking at it, and a messenger boy in a brass-buttoned blue uniform stopped for a moment, looked at my sketch, nodded at me, and walked on."