carhop

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UK/ˈkɑːˌhɒp/US/ˈkɑɹˌhɑp/

noun

A waiter or waitress who serves customers, especially in their vehicles, at a drive-in restaurant, sometimes on rollerskates.

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Meanings

nouncarhop (plural carhops)

plural carhops

  1. USA waiter or waitress who serves customers, especially in their vehicles, at a drive-in restaurant, sometimes on rollerskates.

    I ended my aimless-roaming-short-term-odd-jobs lifestyle and joyfully went to work at a local restaurant in Langley Park, Maryland, as a carhop.

    2005, H Reese Scott, Embracing Emily
verbcarhop (third-person singular simple present carhops, present participle carhopping, simple past and past participle carhopped)

present singular third person carhops · participle present carhopping · participle past carhopped · past carhopped

  1. intransitiveTo work as a carhop.

Origin

Blend of car + (bell)hop.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

carhop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carhop

MLA

“carhop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carhop. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “carhop,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carhop.

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