busboy
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈbʌsˌbɔɪ/
- US
- I worked as a busboy in a busy restaurant, clearing tables and assisting the waiters.
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Watch on YouTubeI 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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4.3
A person who clears plates and sets tables in a restaurant
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9.9
A worker in a pub who serves customers and does simple jobs like clearing tables and getting drinks
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3.0
A person who helps waiters by setting tables, serving customers and clearing dishes
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.