carhop
1
8.9
- noun
- /ˈkɑːrˌhɑp/
- Archaic
:
camarero de autos
- As a carhop, she often served customers their meals on roller skates.
- roller-skating carhop
- worked as a carhop
Examples
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The carhop brought our food right to the car window while we waited.
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MAC: Opening day, cars pull up onto the lot and they start honking immediately because no carhop comes up.
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- Do you enjoy being a carhop?
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I wanna be a carhop.
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- Oh, I'd like to be a carhop.
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Yes, Norman, working as a carhop.
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Oh, Danielle, Norman's gonna be the new carhop.
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A pretty carhop on stone roller skates glides over.
Fiction book (1994) -
I relaxed and even began to see myself as less like a gypsy and more like the other kids in class or the other carhops on the Sonic lot.
Blog text (15) -
I knew Lacy Dawn, the other daughter, as the popular night-shift carhop skating her way to fame, raking in tips and always finding a ride home from one of the late-night customers at closing time.
Blog text (15)
Synonyms
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1.0
A woman who serves food and drinks at tables in a restaurant or cafe
300
1.0
A person who serves food and drinks to people in a restaurant or cafe
60
2.0
A person who brings food and drinks to customers at their table
A person who serves guests and shows them to their table in a restaurant
A person who brings drinks to guests in a bar or at an event
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word carhop comes from car and hop, and hop means 'to jump', because early servers would hop or skate between parked cars at drive-in diners to bring orders. So a carhop is someone who serves customers in their cars.