A servant, menial, or underling. Low man on the totem pole.
“At the Gatewood residence I found butlers, second men, chauffeurs, cooks, maids, upstairs girls, downstairs girls, and a raft of miscellaneous flunkies—he had enough servants to run a hotel.”
Dashiell Hammett, The Gatewood Caper (1924).
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