[ noun ] a boy who sells or delivers newspapers <noun.person>
paperboy \pa"per*boy`\, paper boy \pa"per boy`\(p[=a]"p[~e]r*boi`), n. A boy who sells or delivers newspapers. [WordNet 1.5]
It's hard calling Marshall E. Grant a paperboy.
Her brother, Pete (Stephen Kearney), is a talented inventor unable to hold a regular job, enraging his stuffy, wealthy father by working as a paperboy and using an ingenious mechanical folder on his rounds.
But others remain haunting mysteries: Johnny Gosch, the 12-year-old Iowa paperboy, gone since 1982; Etan Patz, the 6-year-old New Yorker last seen walking to a school bus stop almost 11 years ago.