papergirl

Morning news carrier

A papergirl is a girl who delivers newspapers to homes on a regular route, typically in the early morning.

The job was once a common first employment for young people.

The male equivalent is paperboy, which remains the more common term even when used generically: I had a paper route when I was twelve.

delivery

route

Path from A to B

driveway · toss · throw · bundle · subscription · customer · sidewalk · street · residential · morning

youth

teenager

Person aged thirteen-nineteen

juvenile · preteen · student · childhood · teenage · minor · allowance · pocket money · first job · after-school

newspaper

periodical

Recurring printed publication

bulletin · broadsheet · publication · press · newsstand · headline · circulation · edition · print · daily

nostalgia

vintage

Quality from past eras

memories · classic · old-fashioned · Americana · midcentury · suburban · idyllic · simpler times · innocence · analog

Categories
Opposites
gender

papergirlpaperboy

Youth delivering periodicals

newspaper boy · newsman · paper boy · delivery man · delivery boy

role in information distribution

papergirlreader

One who peruses text

mailman · postal carrier · newspaper editor · journalist · publisher

role in delivery chain

papergirlsubscriber

One who enrolls regularly

customer · recipient · newspaper publisher · editor

Family

papergirls

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G