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  • noun Plural form of bartender.

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Examples

  • I don't believe in "bartenders" of free speech who need to kick out the rowdies.

    Closed for vacation David 2005

  • The long mahogany bar is always crowded, even on a Tuesday, but the Latin bartenders are quick on the job and my order of a mojito and Dos Equis draft was in my hands within 3 minutes.

    Midtown Happy Hour: $1 Empanadas Make Tuesdays at Havana Central The Place to Be | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2009

  • For the lady: Anywhere that you can develop a friendship with the bartenders is a good spot in my book.

    Got Plans? Redux: Follow-up city 2010

  • It's an extraordinary quality bartenders have; a bar or, in this case, a lounge, can be quite adverse and hectic and easily become chaotic, yet bartenders - good bartenders, that is, go about the storm of hands and impatient glares and fidgets with a frightful calm, riding a teetering wire between cordiality of social obligation and quickness and precision of hand with the balance of a world-class funambulist.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1 2009

  • “Well, you know how the bartenders were all watching the highlights on the Red Sox on the television?”

    Travel 2006

  • Vickers and Godfrey were over at Temple -- calling bartenders and carhops at home.

    My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996

  • Sam, the cosmopolite, who called bartenders in San Antone by their first name, stood in the door.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • Last modified on Thursday, March 19, 2009 12: 12 AM MDT BURLEY - Burley City Councilman Vaughn Egan apologized Tuesday night for calling bartenders parasites.

    unknown title 2009

  • There was a great band playing in the middle of the afternoon and the bartenders were the ones who throw bottles, glasses, ice and lime in the air, behind their backs and any other direction they can think of and it was an enjoyable thing to watch.

    McCook Daily Gazette Headlines 2008

  • The ensuing reaction -- most commonly seen in people such as bartenders who work outdoors with limes -- owes to a substance called psoralen, Flugman told Reuters Health.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

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