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lobbygow

[ lob-ee-gou ]

noun

Slang.
  1. an errand boy, as formerly in the Chinatown section of a city.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lobbygow1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; origin obscure
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McGill is a terrible lobbygow, But he’s drawing a regular shortstop’s pay; He romps around like a crippled cow And shows the speed of a two-ton dray.

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The Sir stuff," says I. "Just because I'm behind the ground glass instead of the brass rail don't make me a sacred being, or you a lobbygow, does it?

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Oh, well," he yawned, "you're on this case, and I'm only your lobbygow; so I suppose I've got to let it go at that.

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Her bosom also was bare, for the lobbygow had searched there, also.

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She had been so engrossed in following the lobbygow that it was with a start that she realized that he had entered Muller's.

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