: a hotel or club employee who escorts guests to rooms, assists them with luggage, and runs errands
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There’s even a professional makeup artist on hand to help transform Veneziale’s cast of 17 or so actors into creepy characters, like a deceased bellhop and the walking dead.
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Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025
Passengers boarding the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in Miami first saw the bellhops, standing stiffly and wearing formal English uniforms.
—Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Burst pipes and broken boilers, flooded guest and dining rooms and a new set of inexperienced valets and bellhops all contributed to a drop in quality reflected in the luxury hotel’s rating.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2025
The cinematic ends with Bond ditching her cover as a chauffeur to track a blonde man dressed as a bellhop who’s just dumped a body.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025
Passengers boarding the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship in Miami first saw the bellhops, standing stiffly and wearing formal English uniforms.
—Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Burst pipes and broken boilers, flooded guest and dining rooms and a new set of inexperienced valets and bellhops all contributed to a drop in quality reflected in the luxury hotel’s rating.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2025
The cinematic ends with Bond ditching her cover as a chauffeur to track a blonde man dressed as a bellhop who’s just dumped a body.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Bellhop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bellhop. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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bellhop
noun
bell·hop
-ˌhäp 
: a hotel or club employee who takes guests to rooms, carries luggage, and runs errands
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