What does barrow-boy mean?

barrow-boy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

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"'Is it far to walk,' asked Ruth, 'or should I take a bus?' 'Bus!' The barrow-boy roared with laughter."
"The barrow-boy was older than Elliot, almost a grown man."
"He was just a nice, barrow-boy type geezer who got on the Devil's Dandruff, started to believe his own bullshit and ended up stabbing Charlie Kray's black chauffeur to death over total bollocks."

barrow-boys (plural)

barrow-man

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