printer's devil

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printer's devil (plural printer's devils or printers' devils)

  1. (dated) An apprentice printer.
    • 1909, The Independent, volume 67, page 711:
      The latest of the personal magazinettes to come under our observation is The East Side, a peculiarly New York product, of which Zoe Anderson Norris, of 338 East Fifteenth street, is printer's devil []

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