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cabin boy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Occupations, Water
ˈcabin boy noun [countable]  BOTTWa young man who works as a servant on a ship 船舱的男服务员
Examples from the Corpus
cabin boyOn board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people, even a cabin boy, into paying for his sherry.PipThe Negro cabin boy who loses his mind when abandoned temporarily in the sea.While making Slave Ship in 1937, he had to slap cabin boy Mickey Rooney around.Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties.
ˈcabin boy nounChineseSyllable
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cabin boy
ˈcabin boy noun [countable]
a young man who works as a servant on a ship


cabin boyBrE /ˈkæbɪn bɔɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkæbɪn bɔɪ/ 🔊 nouna boy or young man who works as a servant on a ship (船上的)男服务员