Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A restaurant employee who clears away dirty dishes, sets tables, and serves as an assistant to a waiter or waitress.
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- noun Assistant
waiter ; one whoclears plates from and cleanstables ; one whobuses
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the busboy is giving you better than service than your waiter.
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I remember how Dad thought being a busboy was a real good job.
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 1965
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Service is obviously still taking shape...we weren't offered any water, I had to ask for silverware & napkins, our dishes should have arrived simultaneously to avoid the "no go ahead and start without me" uncomfortableness, we had to wait a bit for the waffles since there was the snafu with the lemon curd, plus the busboy was a bit too intent on clearing our plates quickly.
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Taylor, who married and divorced Burton twice on her way to eight marriages, casually dismissed Mr. Fisher as "the busboy."
Eddie Fisher dies at 82; 1950s singing star brought low by scandalous love life Matt Schudel 2010
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Adam has opened 30 restaurants since 1984, working his way up from age 14 as a busboy and dishwasher to becoming a successful restaurateur in the Seattle area.
Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills Jay Weston 2010
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I was a busboy at the Golden Nugget, cleaning tables at the restaurant.
Freddie Roach: 'Boxing gets in your blood and you just can't quit' 2011
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Six-foot-eleven Stretch might tell us about the young ghost in his room the night before, and One-Armed Carlos would bus a table with his single appendage ten times faster than a busboy with twice the armage.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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There he worked as a busboy, waiter, whatever it took to make ends meet in Albany.
Culinary Journey 2011
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Six-foot-eleven Stretch might tell us about the young ghost in his room the night before, and One-Armed Carlos would bus a table with his single appendage ten times faster than a busboy with twice the armage.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Adam has opened 30 restaurants since 1984, working his way up from age 14 as a busboy and dishwasher to becoming a successful restaurateur in the Seattle area.
Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills Jay Weston 2010
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