: a waiter's assistant
specifically
: one who removes dirty dishes and resets tables in a restaurant
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Those responsible for homeland security should not be chasing laborers on farms and busboys in restaurants in order to meet quotas imposed by the White House.
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Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2025
Started working there and hanging out at the jazz clubs down around Christopher Street at nighttime after the set and kept going and worked about eight years, six or seven years — every other job known to man, busboy, back waiter, bartender, moving company, film car driver.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 6 June 2025
Perez’s mother was a substitute teacher and his father worked at restaurants as a dishwasher and busboy.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 5 May 2025
The pilot follows an offbeat Fresno diner where an ex-party girl, a volatile chef, and an oddball busboy contend with ghost pirates, volcanoes, and the minor inconvenience of dying.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
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Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2025
Started working there and hanging out at the jazz clubs down around Christopher Street at nighttime after the set and kept going and worked about eight years, six or seven years — every other job known to man, busboy, back waiter, bartender, moving company, film car driver.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 6 June 2025
Perez’s mother was a substitute teacher and his father worked at restaurants as a dishwasher and busboy.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 5 May 2025
The pilot follows an offbeat Fresno diner where an ex-party girl, a volatile chef, and an oddball busboy contend with ghost pirates, volcanoes, and the minor inconvenience of dying.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Busboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/busboy. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.
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busboy
noun
bus·boy
ˈbəs-ˌbȯi 
: a person employed in a restaurant to remove dirty dishes and set tables
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