keyboy

English

Etymology

key +‎ boy

Noun

keyboy (plural keyboys)

  1. A male hotel or motel employee in charge of room keys.
    • 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 48:
      I drove downhill . . . toward the Mariner's Rest Motel. . . A keyboy. . . told me that Alex Kincaid had registered and gone out again.
    • 1968, Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy:
      We checked into adjoining rooms in a beach motel near the center of Santa Teresa. . . The keyboy opened the door between our two rooms.
    • 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!
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