busboy
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈbʌsˌbɔɪ/
- US
:
ayudante de camarero
- I worked as a busboy in a busy restaurant, clearing tables and assisting the waiters.
I was working as a busboy in a restaurant.
- I was working as a busboy in a restaurant.
- And once I told my mom I wasn't going to, I'm actually applying for a busboy position.
- Now I'm trying to think if I was ever actually fired from AI was fired from being a busboy.
- I've done, I've been a cab driver, I've been a busboy, I've tended bar, but those things were shorter term and and voluntary while I was doing artistic stuff.
- Oh yeah, I was a busboy in another life PCI E bus.
- So back in like if you are Olive Garden busboy, you got a dual roll.
- Like that is the head, like the mafia boss of the busboys, right?
- And he died and he was one of the premier busboys in America.
- But back then I was a busboy and a fried cook and a dinner cook.
- But like with busboys, bartenders, they're like total assholes.
- And how long before that busboy looks in your eyes and says, I worked with your cousin?
- You know when you doing creatine to busboy, you're gonna do good, OK?
- And look, I'll tell you man, Busboyin, first of all, you have to remember that when you start out as a busboy.
Examples
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I was working as a busboy in a restaurant.
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And my second ever job was as a busboy at the Lobster Roll.
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See that busboy over there?
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No, I was talking to the busboy.
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I'm a busboy, at a nice restaurant.
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Finally, after much looking, John found a job as a busboy at an Italian restaurant at minimum wage.
Academic text (1992) -
I've been a busboy now for six months.
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Hoffman immigrated to Pittsburgh during World War II and worked as a busboy for over a decade.
Fiction book (1996) -
The kitchen is bustling with cooks and busboys. Mason moves toward the side exit.
Fiction book (1996) -
The busboy diligently wiped down the tables after the dinner rush.
Synonyms
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A person who clears plates and sets tables in a restaurant
A person who helps waiters by setting tables, serving customers and clearing dishes
A worker in a pub who serves customers and does simple jobs like clearing tables and getting drinks
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Busboy comes from the verb bus, which means 'to clear dishes', plus boy for a young male worker. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a 'bus' carrying many plates away, so a busboy is the person who takes away plates and sets the table again.