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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bellboy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A clerk told him the number of his reserved room, and handed a bellboy the key.
▪ Behind them a bellboy walked in, a pile of newspapers under his arm.
▪ Some say Idi is briefly a bellboy at the Imperial Hotel in Kampala, bright buttons shining.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bellboy

bellboy \bellboy\ n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.

Syn: bellman, bellhop.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bellboy

from bell (n.) + boy; originally (1851) a ship's bell-ringer, later (1861) a hotel page.

Wiktionary
bellboy

n. A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.

WordNet
bellboy

n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels [syn: bellman, bellhop]

Wikipedia
Bellboy (disambiguation)

A bellboy is a hotel porter.

Bellboy or Bell boy may also refer to:

  • Bell Boy 13, a 1923 film starring Douglas MacLean
  • The Bellboy, a 1960 Jerry Lewis film
  • The Bell Boy a 1918 short film
  • "Bell Boy" (song) by The Who
  • Bell Boy (boat), a line of fiberglass boats produced in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Bellboy pager

Usage examples of "bellboy".

Would you call the desk, Scott, please, and ask them to send up a couple of bellboys?

A banner suspended from the vaulted lobby roof proclaimed: WELCOME DELEGATES CONGRESS OF AMERICAN DENTISTRY Dodo joined him, two laden bellboys following like acolytes behind a goddess.

The bottles were brought here, usually in laundry bags which bellboys could carry within the hotel without arousing comment.

The bulk of her luggage, collected by two bellboys, had gone down to the lobby several minutes earlier.

He would share it all right, he reflected, except that the other bellboys would get fifty cents each, with Herbie retaining the four dollars.

Soon, a line of waiters, cooks, clerks, bellboys, musicians, some conscripted guests, extended across the lobby and to the St.

He had been told by one of the bellboys that there was a new arrival in that room, a very pretty girl, the boy had said.

An infantry of bellboys flanked the sides of the sunlit hall, their brass buttons glittering like crocodile eyes, their caps set at an angle that suggested jauntiness without jocularity, disarm without disrespect.

To my left, efficient-looking bellboys were buzzing around a sprinkling of sofas, chairs, and coffee tables.

When moments later it arrived the bellboys, Zack gave the valises to him of whose flanks they excelled you fold of the clothes of Rachel.

He affirms that the bellboys were mistaken and who any voice that has heard must have been the one of some actress of a television program.

I called a bellboy to take away the antisepticized clothes and he called the public health service which sent a special truck.

The bellboy, whose name was Raul, was overjoyed as his first communication with Desi the First consisted of the following-freely translated.

He had taken a one-bedroom suite, and the bellboy performed his customary routine, carrying the bags into the bedroom, showing them how to operate things they already knew how to operate, busily drawing open the curtains to let in the fierce red light of sundown.

The bellboy nodded again and dashed over to the bell captain's desk.