call boy:
(also ‘callboy’, plural: ‘call boys‘; for the right pronunciation & some more explanation, please click here; female: ‘call girl‘)
a call boy
a young man whose job is to tell (remind) actors when it is time to go onto the stage or on to the sets of a film;
a young man or boy who passes on the messages of a captain of a ship to the engineer, helmsman, etc. on a ship;
a boy whose job is to wait to answer phone calls of his employer, and when got a call, goes to the master and informs; a bell boy,
A call boy on film shooting sets needs to be ever patient because actors are notorious for their bad moods.
The Captain of the ship sent a message to the helmsman by a call boy.
After the advent of mobile phones, there is hardly any use for the call boys in the offices; anybody can be in touch with others at a press of a button!
a callboy/a male prostitute
