| 单词 | beer jerker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeer jerker 5. U.S. colloquial. A person who dispenses drinks, esp. soda or beer, at a soda fountain or bar. Frequently with preceding word, specifying the drink dispensed, as beer jerker; see also soda-jerker n. at soda n.1 Compounds 3b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1864 Gleason's Lit. Compan. 15 Oct. 665/4 ‘Pretty waiter-girls’ are known in St. Louis as ‘beer-jerkers’. 1874 Evening Telegram (N.Y.) 13 Feb. 3/1 Beer drinking is quite a different business. It requires..a few waiters to serve the beer at the tables, and a ‘jerker’, whose business it is to fill the glasses in such a way as to make the keg hold out the longest on his side of the account. 1916 Southern Pharmaceut. Jrnl. Jan. 20/2 Talk about women never being on time. Why, the average jerker of soda has the woman beat a mile. 1921 Van Buren (Indiana) News-Eagle 2 June 8/2 He started out as fizze jerker, then a naval student, a Honkey on the railroad [etc.]. 1941 N.Y. Herald Tribune 12 Aug. 22/6 The soda lingo, we learn, is authentic, picked up from campus fountain jerkers, an earful to the uninitiated! < as lemmas |
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