Keyboy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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"I drove downhill . . . toward the Mariner's Rest Motel. . . A keyboy. . . told me that Alex Kincaid had registered and gone out again."

Etymology

From key + boy.

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