redcap

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

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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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Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid a redcap to deliver them to Charles & Co.

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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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Like, for example, as a redcap, Madoc needs bloodshed the way a mermaid needs the salt spray of the sea.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black