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copy boy
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copy boy also cop·y·boy (kp-boi)
n.
A boy employed by a newspaper or broadcast news office to carry copy and run errands.


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At 17, he started as a copyboy for the Daily Telegraph in Sydney and was soon a reporter.
The current political fixation on fat is as distinctly un-American as Alger Hiss' side job as a Kremlin copyboy.
My first taste of newspapering came when I wrote for an army weekly during my military service in Europe Afterward, in 1959, 1 went to work at The New York Times as a copyboy.
 
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