Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bellhop.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels
Etymologies
- bell + boy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done," said the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick.”
The Huffington Post: Rick Hamlin: Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Each man paid $10 to the bellboy and proceeded to their room.”
“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.”
“A world without bills and coins is coming—even for the pack of gum, the bellboy and the babysitter.”
“When she opens the door, however, she faces the same bellboy who carried her bag up to her room.”
The Huffington Post: Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red: "Face Up to the Facts"
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