a person employed by a hotel, club, etc. to carry luggage and do errands
bellhop
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bellhop
noun
A person employed by a hotel to assist guests, as by carrying luggage and doing errands.
Origin of bellhop
Probably short for bell-hopperTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- You may also recognize him from Roseanne, where he played a bellhop when Roseanne and the Connors went to Walt Disney World.