| 单词 | biscuit shooter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbiscuit shooter biscuit shooter n. U.S. slang (now rare) a person who serves food quickly; spec. a maid, waitress, or waiter, or a mess cook in a workman's camp, on a ranch, etc.; cf. hash slinger n. at hash n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1873 Rutland (Vermont) Daily Globe 8 Sept. The latest name for table waiters is—‘biscuit shooters’. 1875 Burlington (Iowa) Daily Hawk-eye 21 Sept. 8/1 Who has the better right to the kitchen fire Sunday evenings,..the young lady of the family and her Augustus, or the biscuit shooter and her young man? 1902 Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel 15 Mar. 8/2 When rather young and hard up in Omaha he was a ‘biscuit shooter’ in a ‘hurry up hashhouse’. 1917 Chicago Examiner 3 Aug. 3/4 ‘Are you the cook?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ replied the startled biscuit shooter. 2011 J. D. Nesbitt Gather my Horses iv. 58 He saw her as more than just a biscuit-shooter. < as lemmas |
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