bellhop

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  1. noun A person employed by a hotel to assist guests, as by carrying luggage and doing errands.

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  • And, now that I think of it, he did look something like the bellhop who tried to kill us at the hotel The bronze man returned to the hotel. —  077 - Merchants of Disaster
  • So when the bellhop, tip in hand, hesitated on the threshold of my room, watching as I unpacked a stack of my latest paperback, and then asked me, "Sir, exactly how do you portray a working nanotechnology so as to avoid rendering it indistinguishable from magic?" —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • The woman in front of me sported a business suit ; at midnight ; and big enough bags under her eyes to be mistaken for a bellhop. —  tell No one
  • The woman in front of me sported a business suit – at midnight – and big enough bags under her eyes to be mistaken for a bellhop. —  Tell No One by Harlan Coben
  • But in the meantime, the bellhop wasn't too far off about something else. —  Judge and Jury
 

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