busboy

[ US /ˈbəsˌbɔɪ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌsbɔ‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes
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How To Use busboy In A Sentence

  • Adam went home to his mother's house in Cambridge and got a job as a busboy at the Border Café.
  • Hosts and hostesses wear half aprons; busboys wear a plain black apron with the restaurant logo on front.
  • They took jobs with low pay and little advancement potential, working as busboys, waiters, gardeners, janitors, and domestic help in cities.
  • When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket.
  • Vance was a busboy, waiter, captain, valet, and a limo driver before joining middle management in the '70s.
  • Adam has opened 30 restaurants since 1984, working his way up from age 14 as a busboy and dishwasher to becoming a successful restaurateur in the Seattle area. Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills
  • Taylor, who married and divorced Burton twice on her way to eight marriages, casually dismissed Mr. Fisher as "the busboy. Eddie Fisher dies at 82; 1950s singing star brought low by scandalous love life
  • He seemed on the verge of explaining this, when the busboy arrived with the retsina and three glasses. SURE OF YOU
  • I was a busboy at the Golden Nugget, cleaning tables at the restaurant. Freddie Roach: 'Boxing gets in your blood and you just can't quit'
  • They were named for their absent Mexican father, Juan Roberto, a restaurant busboy aspiring to be an architect, who ran away from babies he wasn't old enough to handle.
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