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carhop
noun- an employee in a drive-in restaurant who serves customers in their cars US, 1939
- I drove on past the gaudy neons and the false fronts behind them, the sleazy hamburger joints that look like palaces under the colors, the circular drive-ins as gay as circuses with the chipper hard-eyed car-hops[.] — Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, p. 79, 1949
- [A] fancy dog palace sprawled along the highway with tables inside and out, car-hop service and a small bar if you wanted one for the road. — Mickey Spillane, The Long Wait, p. 120, 1951
- When he got his discharge papers he made tracks for Laguna Beach, where he landed a job as a carhop in a drive-in beanery. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 159, 1954
- “And it’s easier than being a carhop.” — Madam Sherry, Pleasure Was My Business, p. 15, 1963
- It was a big year for a drive-in restaurant carhop. — Merle Haggard, The Way It Was in ‘51, 1975
- They don’t have carhops there, they have a radio speaker into which you call your order. — Mort Sahl, Heartland, p. 61, 1976
- Son of a carhop in an all-night dive. — Rodney Crowell, Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This, 1978
- a girl who chooses partners on the basis of their car US
- — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 75, 1995
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