redcap
Example Sentences
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A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Now, be careful," warned our redcap, Chester, as he carried our suitcases to our second-story sleeper on the silver superliner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kim said to her mother, “Mommy, can’t you tell that Bud-not-Buddy doesn’t know what a redcap is, you gotta explain better.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
