car boyn.2
/ˈkɑː bɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈkɑr ˌbɔɪ/ rare.
A boy who operates or drives a car (in various senses).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun]
driver?c1450
leader1497
Jehu1694
wagoner1841
car boy1843
pilot1926
1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. II. xii. 210 My kind host gave orders to the small ragged boy that drove the car, to take ‘particular care of the little gentleman’; and the car-boy, grinning in appreciation of the joke, drove off at his best pace, and landed his cargo at Newry, after a pleasant two hours' drive.
1974 J. C. Underwood Lit. Insurgency iv. 143 Ten years before he had been a car boy at the Big Dipper mine in Placer County.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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