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redcap

[red-kap] / ˈrɛdˌkæp /


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He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.

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

Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.

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

Like, for example, as a redcap, Madoc needs bloodshed the way a mermaid needs the salt spray of the sea.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black