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

Two misfit sailors try to swap a bum racehorse for its speedy twin, owned by a carhop.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2020

For much of her life, she subsisted at the margins of society, making ends meet, according to various accounts, as a bartender, a maid, a roller-skating carhop and a house painter.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2017

By World War II, carhop service was common at drive-up restaurants offering fare such as burgers and ice cream loats, some brought out by roller-skating waitresses.

From Time • Jul. 4, 2016

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