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bartend, v. orig. and chiefly N. Amer.
Brit. |ˈbɑːˌtɛnd|, U.S. |ˈbɑrˌtɛnd|
[‹ bar n.1 + tend v.1, after bartender n., bartending n.]
1. trans. To serve (drinks), esp. in a bar. Also: to work as a bartender at (an establishment, event, etc.).
1948Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 1 Dec. 6/3 We can..cook our own suppers and bartend our own drinks. 1979T. Wolfe Right Stuff (2001) iii. 38 Just beyond the base,..there was a rickety wind-blown 1930's-style establishment called Pancho's Fly Inn, owned, run, and bartended by a woman named Pancho Barnes. 1997J. Brady Further Lane 54 They were the husband and wife team who lived on her property, the missus cooking and keeping after the cleaning woman and the other day servants and people recruited to wait and bartend parties.
2. intr. To work as a bartender; to serve drinks.
1949C. Odets Big Knife i. 37 Coy. I'm ready to bar-tend, union regulations permitting. Marcus? Hoff. A little sparkling water. 1977Washington Post 12 May f18/3 He'll keep the books, bartend and go the the [sic] dump from June to September. 1989M. Norman These Good Men vi. 175 He was not a real party guy. He decided he would bartend and watch everybody else. 1998Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 26 Oct. ‘You can't bartend anywhere and make the money we make,’ he said, while filling an order for a Jack Daniels. |