check girl
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6.8
- noun
- Archaic
:
encargada de guardar abrigos
- Everyone complimented the check girl on her friendly service as they checked in their coats.
- a check girl
- a hat check girl
Examples
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The check girl politely took my coat and gave me a ticket in return.
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She's the coat check girl.
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Jack hands the coats over to the coat check girl...
Fiction book (2000) -
Is that the coat-check girl?
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That coat-check girl is rude.
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I'm a hat-check girl in a night club in Miami.
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Now I know why the coat-check girl didn't like me.
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I am gonna be... a hat-check girl, at one of them East Side high-class restaurants.
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I'm a coat-check girl.
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At the theater, the check girl helped everyone store their bags safely.
Synonyms
4
4.9
A person who takes and looks after coats or bags for customers
2
8.6
A woman who takes and looks after guests' coats and hats at a public place
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'check' (to deliver or hand over items for temporary storage) + 'girl' (a female person) yields a female attendant who checks or looks after patrons' items. This agentive noun formation is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Check girl comes from the simple job of check: a young woman took your coat, umbrella, or parcel at the door and gave you a small 'ticket' to claim it later. So a check girl means a woman who looks after and returns people's items at a restaurant or theater.