bartender
One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from 19th c.]
Noun
- One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. [from 19th c.]
- He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers... - 2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba:
- They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned. - 2010, Erich R. Sysak, Water Heart:
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Etymology tree English bar English tender English bartender From bar + tender.
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