redcap

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Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.

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.

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He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.

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Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.

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Even I, who have grown up in the house of a redcap, fear goblins.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black