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  • noun Alternative spelling of barkeeper.

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Examples

  • He told his troubles and hard luck to the bar-keeper and the world in general, and to

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • So I got a bar-keeper in Oakland to make them in bulk and ship them to me.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • He told his troubles and hard luck to the bar-keeper and the world in general, and to

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • "Ay like the looks," he was saying to the bar-keeper.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • There was no bar-keeper upon whom to call for drinks, no small boy to send around the corner for a can of beer and by means of that social fluid start the amenities of friendship flowing.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • "Ay like the looks," he was saying to the bar-keeper.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • Becoming my own master, I flung my gown at the bar-keeper, and commenced gay man on my own account.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Lourenco Marques bar-keeper, with a lot of Shangaan words to fill up.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • I applauded the resolution of Miss Williams, who a few days after, was hired in quality of bar-keeper, by one of the ladies who had witnessed in her behalf at the Marshalsea, and who since that time had got credit with a wine merchant, whose favourite she was, to set up a convenient house of her own.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • There, while he endeavoured to pick up intelligence from the bar-keeper, he was accosted by a person in canonicals, who very civilly asked if he was a new-comer.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

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