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paperboy

/pey-per-boi/US // ˈpeɪ pərˌbɔɪ //UK // (ˈpeɪpəˌbɔɪ) //

报童,报务员,报纸男孩,造纸工人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.

Examples

  • He was a talented salesman and began working as a paperboy at age 12.

  • Nicole Kidman stretched as a Southern damsel in The Paperboy, but the movie was widely panned.

  • Zac Efron spends a good portion of ‘The Paperboy,’ in theaters Friday, in his tighty whities.

  • The Paperboy, a film starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, and Nicole Kidman, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

  • More recently, a dispute between him and Paperboy producer Avi Lerner, which yielded mutual accusations of racism, went viral.

  • Director Lee Daniels stormed the festival with The Paperboy—and its buzzy Nicole Kidman urination scene.