Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who serves drinks in a bar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A barrister.
- noun A barkeeper or bartender.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
man who works in abar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
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Examples
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Eventually Clark and Cullen could stand it no longer, and called the barman over.
Begging for Jokes... 2007
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"THREE for one here," calls a barman from a neighbouring bar, equally empty.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"THREE for one here," calls a barman from a neighbouring bar, equally empty.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"THREE for one here," calls a barman from a neighbouring bar, equally empty.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Eventually Brown and Darling could stand it no longer and called the barman over.
Rogue Gunner Rogue Gunner 2010
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"THREE for one here," calls a barman from a neighbouring bar, equally empty.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Eventually Brown and Darling could stand it no longer and called the barman over.
Rogue Gunner Rogue Gunner 2010
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Periodically, after an engagement had liteen tidily finished and the casualties removed from the gfeerie. they would be summoned to Hanoi, nearly four fears 'flight away, addressed by the Commander-in-Chief, lodged for one night in a Press Gamp where they boasted that the barman was the best in Indo-China, flown over the late battlefield at a height of 3,000 feet (the limit of a heavy machine-gun's range) and then delivered safely and easily back, like aschool-treat, to the Continental Hotel in Saigon.
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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The barman was a lively fellow, which was just as well considering the state of his clientele, and kept us plied with drinks and put up with what must have been inane conversation until somewhere near 4am when we fell out onto the road, which could be done by leaning back on your stool, dodged the Cameroonian at the end of the road who promised us women and, erm, more women and took a taxi home.
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Taking in the sunsets while you're relaxing on your own rocking chair is a must, especially with a rocket-powered rum punch mixed by Dougie, the resort's resident barman.
Richard Powell: Jamaica: A Dreadfully Good Getaway Richard Powell 2011
chained_bear commented on the word barman
barkeep. "I took the jeers and drank the beers and crawled back home at dawn/And ended up a barman in the morning." -- "Sally MacLennane," the Pogues, lyrics c. 1985 Shane Macgowan
February 7, 2007
invicteus commented on the word barman
Barman, why didn't I think of it's definition being one of the bar?
November 24, 2014