carhop

See also: car-hop and car hop

English

Etymology

Blend of car +‎ (bell)hop

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.
   • 2005, H Reese Scott, Embracing Emily:

     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

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

1. (intransitive) To work as a carhop.

Anagrams

• Chopra, coprah, paroch