stockboy

See also: stock-boy and stock boy

English

Alternative forms

• stock boy
• stock-boy

Etymology

stock +‎ boy

Noun

stockboy (plural stockboys)

1. A young stockman raising livestock.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 85:

     He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […] "

2. A young stockman, an employee at a store stocking shelves; an entry-level retail employee.
   • 1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There are no Children Here‎^[2], page 194:

     He had graduated from Cregier High School two months earlier and quickly landed a job as a stockboy at Order from Horder, a stationery store chain.

   • 1991 September 19, Tim Sniffen, Tangelo Pie‎^[3] (comic), University of Massachusetts Amherst:

     Excuse me, but is this huge application necessary? Listing job experience — what experience is crucial for being a stock boy?

   • 2009 April 19, Allen Salkin, “He’s the Man Who Sets the Table”, in New York Times‎^[4]:

     When an aunt who was an actress helped him find a job in the William Morris mailroom, where would-be agents traditionally start, the salary was not enough to support him, so he took a second job working as a stockboy at a Macy’s in New Jersey.

   • 2013, Arthur Danto, chapter 1, in What Art Is, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 36:

     A marvelous photograph by Fred McDarrah shows Andy [Warhol] standing among his boxes, like a stock boy in the stockroom, his pasty face looking out at us.