Usually means: Assistant in pubs, cleans dishes.
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  1. potboy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. potboy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. potboy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. potboy: Vocabulary.com
  5. potboy: Wordnik
  6. potboy: Wiktionary
  7. potboy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Potboy, potboy: Dictionary.com
  9. Potboy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. potboy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. potboy: Rhymezone
  12. Potboy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. potboy: Free Dictionary
  14. potboy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. potboy: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (potboy)

noun:  A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.
noun:  A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.
noun:  (British) A boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.

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