Home › Words › S › shopboyshopboyshopboy means A boy employed in a shop.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, shopboy ranks #30,157 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom shop + boy.nounA boy employed in a shop.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.barboy 67% match — A young man who works in a bar, serving alcohol etc. vs shopboy →counterboy 67% match — A boy who serves at a counter. vs shopboy →boyship 66% match — A term of address for a boy. vs shopboy →shopwoman 66% match — A woman employed in a shop. vs shopboy →shopmaid 65% match — A young woman who works in a shop. vs shopboy →newsboy 65% match — A boy, or by extension a man, who sells and/or delivers newspapers. vs shopboy →bagboy 64% match — A man or boy employed to put clients' purchases (e.g. groceries) into bags at the checkout line of a store. vs shopboy →houseboy 64% match — A young male domestic servant, especially in a British colony in former times. vs shopboy →