keyboy
nounEtymology From key + boy.
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A male hotel or motel employee in charge of room keys.
- I drove downhill . . . toward the Mariner's Rest Motel. . . A keyboy. . . told me that Alex Kincaid had registered and gone out again.1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 48:
- We checked into adjoining rooms in a beach motel near the center of Santa Teresa. . . The keyboy opened the door between our two rooms.1968, Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy:
1 more example
- 20??, on-line comment, TravelBlog web-page Arrive between 06:00 p.m.and 09:00 p.m. clock clock [sic] get your room key from the KeyBoy the right from [sic] the hotel entrance!