Other forms: bellhops
A bellhop is the uniformed attendant who takes luggage to rooms. Tip the bellhop, call the bellhop, work as a bellhop.
It is the American word; British hotels say porter. The name comes from hopping to it when the desk bell rang, and it belongs to a period of hotel service — grand lobbies, brass trolleys — more than to most hotels now.
1nounbellhopThe uniformed attendant who takes luggage to rooms.
“The bellhop carried our suitcases up to the room, and we gave him a tip.”
bellhop is a hotel worker.
A shortening of bellhopper, from hopping to answer the bell at the desk. American, from the early twentieth century.
Shortening of bellhopper.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA