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- noun The person responsible for the running of a
pub , usually theproprietor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I wonder how an English or Irish pubkeeper would react to a polite request that he get rid of the soccer and turn on a baseball game, though I suppose that any European pub likely to subscribe to ESPN or some other American cabel channel would have several screens.
Meet the man behind crime fiction's most despicable character Peter Rozovsky 2010
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And you - you still think it funny that I want this sort of job, but you wouldn't think so if my father was a ... a farmer, or a pubkeeper, or a school-master.
Flying Finish Francis, Dick, 1920- 1966
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His father, who sought to make a living as a tanner, a soldier, a fencing master and even a pubkeeper, was virtually unemployed when John was born in 1789.
NYT > Home Page By SOUREN MELIKIAN 2011
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