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noun

a waiter's helper in a restaurant or other public dining room.

Also, bus boy.

Origin:
1910–15, Americanism; bus- short for omnibus waiter's helper (see omnibus) + boy

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Word Origin & History

busboy

1913, from bus (v.) in the restaurant sense + boy.

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