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carhop

/ˈkɑːˌhɒp/ UK
/ˈkɑɹˌhɑp/ US

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Blend of car + (bell)hop.

noun carhops

US A 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.

verb carhops · carhopping · carhopped

intransitive To work as a carhop.

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@misc{carhop_2026,
  title = {carhop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carhop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}