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Definition of billy boy in English: billy boynoun Australian, NZ A boy who makes tea and does other jobs for a group of workers. pity help any billy boy who didn't have the water ready on time Example sentencesExamples - His first job was as a billy boy, making tea and doing other odd jobs.
- It was a hard task passing myself off as a billy boy.
- By the 1960s, some billy boys were going to the shops to get food for the men.
- He had not worked his way up from a 15-year-old billy boy in North Queensland to be overawed by anyone's 'flowery phrases'.
- The billy boy is hard at work preparing elevenses for the tradesmen on the site where he works in August 1937.
- Billy boys were often apprentices on meagre salaries who were expected to learn their trade over a number of years.
- As well as learning the trade, he had the responsibility of billy boy.
- As part of their on-the-job training, billy boys often did lots of other odd jobs around sites, such as running messages and handling tools.
- He joined his father in the grass seeding from an early age, first as a billy boy.
- After primary education at the public school, he became billy boy to a cane-cutting gang.
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