English Dictionary

jack boy

名詞

別表記 異形 俗語 廃用

(slang) Alternative form of jackboy / (slang, Christ's Hospital) A low-ranking employee who is responsible for dispensing drinks to the other workers.

日本語の意味

スラングとして用いられる「jack boy」は、低い地位の従業員を指し、特に他の労働者に飲み物を提供する役割を担う人を意味します。

Everyone in the neighborhood knew the jack boy by his scar.

近所の誰もが、その傷跡でストリートのチンピラを知っていた。

意味（1）

(slang) Alternative form of jackboy

Trey led into the story of two misguided young men's futile attempts at being jack boys.

意味（2）

(slang, Christ's Hospital) A low-ranking employee who is responsible for dispensing drinks to the other workers.

As the last order are destined to be jack boys, and to other inferior offices, so the first are monitors of the ward, whose province it is to walk up and down the table in the hall, at meals, during the time service is performing, and to take care that the others do not play nor talk, but attend to their duty and singing, both before they sit down to eat, and when they rise up from table;

意味（3）

(slang, obsolete) A boy or young man who is hired to run errands and perform unskilled labor.

The only fault I find at Moberly is that they are mighty shy of “jack boys;" that is the fault all along the Wabash, only more so at Moberly, but I have assurance from the Officials that this will be taken care of in the near future.

jack boys （ plural ）