skycap
Example Sentences
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Desmond Taylor, 64, is a skycap who has worked at LAX for 33 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
David Tucker, for example, is 74 and still waking at 1:15 each morning to get to his job as a skycap at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
A traveler may drop off a bag at the airport curb with a skycap, who may work for the airport, the airline or a third company.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2012
Airport police walked with a bomb-sniffing dog along the long lines of people who were waiting to check their luggage with a skycap outside the terminal.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2011
We’d stopped to check Lily’s baggage with the skycap, leaving us free of the Samsonite at last.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
