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- noun The
provision offood anddrink to aguest in hishotel room - noun The
department of a hotel that provides this service
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Examples
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Stories about her pettiness are legion: the time in Boston she telephoned the management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to complain that the Ritz- Carlton's room service had put peas in her pasta; the time when, feeling chilly while riding in a limo in Southern California, she used the cellular phone to call her management company in New York, which phoned the limo service, which phoned the driver, who turned the air conditioning down; the time in New York when she and Luciano Pavarotti competed to see which could arrive later for a dress rehearsal.
bilby commented on the word room service
"Room service? Send up a larger room."
- Groucho Marx.
December 24, 2007