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English
Etymology
Shortening of bellhopper.
Noun
bellhop (plural bellhops)
- An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.
1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:Now, the bellhop's tears keep flowin'
And the desk clerk's dressed in black.
Well, they've been so long on Lonely Street
Well, they'll never, they'll never look back.
Verb
bellhop (third-person singular simple present bellhops, present participle bellhopping, simple past and past participle bellhopped)
- (intransitive) To work as a bellhop.
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