Meanings
plural bellhops
- An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.
Now, the bellhop's tears keep flowin' And the desk clerk's dressed in black. Well, they've been so long on Lonely Street Well, they'll never, they'll never look back.
1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis PresleySynonyms: callboy
present singular third person bellhops · participle present bellhopping · participle past bellhopped · past bellhopped
- intransitiveTo work as a bellhop.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.
Origin
Shortening of bellhopper.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
bellhop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bellhop
“bellhop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bellhop. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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