bell-boy/bell-hop:
(also without the hyphen between ‘bell’ and ‘boy’ = ‘bellboy’/bellhop’; also, less commonly, known as ‘bellman‘; plural: ‘bell-boys/bell-hops‘)
a bellboy on duty
a young and smart man, in a special uniform, who works at a hotel or club taking guests to their rooms, carrying their things, giving them messages, etc;
a page; a porter,
Tipping a bell-boy is an age old custom.
Most of the bellboys in hotels in the Gulf are young immigrants from Asia and S. America.
Some bellhops speak more than one foreign language, and that too, without an accent!
Return to “groom“.
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