redcap
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Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid a redcap to deliver them to Charles & Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kim said to her mother, “Mommy, can’t you tell that Bud-not-Buddy doesn’t know what a redcap is, you gotta explain better.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
