carhop

Example Sentences

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After class, she would take everyone home before heading to her second job as a carhop at Sonic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

His second wife, Lee Roberts, was more amenable to his racing, supporting him with money from her job as a carhop at a drive-in restaurant.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

The Valley’s self-regard also sustains the Valley Relics Museum, where the Valley of yore and lore, of carhop drive-ins and a celebrated honky-tonk called the Palomino, live on in their neon signs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2021

Three years ago, he was a carhop at a Sonic Drive-In in Garland, Tex.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018

My high school friends would still have been whining over boyfriends and fighting for carhop jobs at the A&W. Their idea of a dog-eat-dog world was Beauty School.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver