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waitress

noun

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as in bartender

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Recent Examples of waitress Angamarca has a landscaping business, and Anderson is a waitress at Three Brothers Restaurant in New Milford. — Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026 Litt also posted that a longtime waitress at Hygrade Deli will be back. — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2026 This over-the-top Courtney tries out jobs like therapist, waitress, and flight attendant, pulling audience members up to the stage to be her clients. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026 Johnny Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1963, the youngest of four children to Betty Sue Palmer, a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. — Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for waitress

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Noun

Started going to a place called the Café Central, and the bartender was a really magnetic, funny guy named Bruce Willis.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
But a bartender’s lament about the overwhelming crowd mid-afternoon at The Tap felt a little, well, misplaced.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of bartender

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The black-and-white clip, punctuated with fun animations, finds Rose and their band performing the song in an empty bar with a barkeep (played by Simpson) who goes from wiping counters to rocking out.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Henry Winkler plays the oddball mayor, Lena Headey the town barkeep.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of barkeep

Noun

Slowly, the Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, and Croatia gets to his feet and places his spindly arms around the barman, who is old enough to be his father.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Or, even better, a cocktail devised by the famed barman Frank Meier, a historical figure who is central to the novel.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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