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English
Etymology
From bar + keep, clipping of barkeeper.
Pronunciation
Noun
barkeep (plural barkeeps)
- (informal) a bartender
1873, Bret Harte, Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands:I sez to the barkeep' o' the hotel, "Show me the biggest doctor here."
- 1999: Frasier (TV, episode 6.13)
- Barkeep, a couple of beers here, please?
Verb
barkeep (third-person singular simple present barkeeps, present participle barkeeping, simple past and past participle barkeeped)
- (intransitive) To bartend; to keep a bar; to act as a barkeep.
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