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carhop

UK/ˈkɑːˌhɒp/US/ˈkɑɹˌhɑp/

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

Noun

carhop (plural carhops)

  1. (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.2005, H Reese Scott, Embracing Emily

Verb

carhop (third-person singular simple present carhops, present participle carhopping, simple past and past participle carhopped)

  1. (intransitive) To work as a carhop.

Forms of carhop

Noun
pluralcarhops
Verb
third-person singular presentcarhops
present participlecarhopping
past participlecarhopped
pastcarhopped

Origin of carhop

Blend of car + (bell)hop.

Questions about carhop

What does carhop mean?
Carhop means a waiter or waitress who serves customers, especially in their vehicles, at a drive-in restaurant, sometimes on rollerskates.
What part of speech is carhop?
Carhop can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce carhop?
Carhop is pronounced /ˈkɑːˌhɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of carhop?
The plural of carhop is carhops.

Words near carhop in the dictionary

  1. Carham
  2. Carhampton
  3. carhanded
  4. Carhart
  5. Carharts
  6. carhop
  7. carhopped
  8. carhopping
  9. carhops
  10. carhouse
  11. carhouses

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