Meaning of link boy | Babel Free

Definitions

A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets.

historical

Examples

““Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch.”

“By the early eighteenth century link-boys had long been part of London's criminal and sexual mythology.”

CEFR level