busboy

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bus·boy /ˈbʌsbɔɪ/ noun [countable]  American EnglishDLDF a young man whose job is to take away dirty dishes from the tables in a restaurant 餐馆打杂工〔负责收拾碗碟的小伙子〕

Examples from the Corpus

busboy• A woman in a Chanel suit squeezes past a busboy and peers into the kitchen.• A busboy kills time by folding napkins.• Each section is staffed by waiters and busboys who serve the plated meals to the passengers.• For upstairs they hired the smallest, lightest busboy they could find.• One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.• The new busboy, Morton, boxed in his spare time.Origin busboy (1900-2000) omnibus “helper in a restaurant” ((19-20 centuries)) (from Latin; → OMNIBUS1) + boy

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busboy
bus‧boy /ˈbʌsbɔɪ/ noun [countable]American English a young man whose job is to take away dirty dishes from the tables in a restaurant

bus·boyBrE /ˈbʌsbɔɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌsbɔɪ/ 🔊 noun (NAmE) a person who works in a restaurant and whose job is to clear the dirty dishes, etc. 餐厅勤杂工（负责收餐具、抹桌子等）