Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male bellhop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boy who answers a bell; specifically, an employee in a hotel who attends to the wants of guests in their rooms when summoned by bell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
male worker , usually at ahotel , who carriesluggage and runserrands .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels
Etymologies
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Examples
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Blood was running so hard that I got frightened and I called the bellboy … he helped me make a bandage … I’m still wearing it in fact …” She presented her right index finger, wrapped up in a pink gummy strip.
The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002
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He recovered sufficient consciousness to call a bellboy and told him that he wanted to go to the Townes Hospital, a famous institution for alcoholics, presided over by the late Dr. Silkworth, one of the greatest men in the field of alcoholism—now deceased but never to be forgotten.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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Norton Baskin, the owner, has instructed the bellboy to be on the lookout for the famed African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston and to take her up to his private apartment as soon as she arrives.
Southern Soulmates Stuart Ferguson 2010
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In a post of mine in October 2009 that I called 'Jazz means Democracy,' I wrote: 'It doesn't matter if you're old or young; man or woman; a billionaire or a bellboy; free or inside a prison; Muslim or Christian, or Jew.
'Train' Out of Iran Nat Hentoff 2011
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A world without bills and coins is coming—even for the pack of gum, the bellboy and the babysitter.
Time for Cash to Cash Out? David Wolman 2012
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Each man paid $10 to the bellboy and proceeded to their room.
Math problem? marshallpayne1 2010
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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done," said the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Rick Hamlin: Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things? Rick Hamlin 2010
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So each man originally paid $10, but after the bellboy gave each man $1 back, each man paid $9. 9 x 3 = $27 plus the $2 the bellboy put in his pocket equals $29.
Math problem? marshallpayne1 2010
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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done," said the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Rick Hamlin: Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things? Rick Hamlin 2010
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After a little while the bellboy realized that there was a special on rooms that night and the price for the men's room should have been $25.
Math problem? marshallpayne1 2010
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