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waitress

noun

Definition of waitress

as in bartender

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Recent Examples of waitress Our waitress, Alina from Ukraine, was attentive and polite, informed about the menu and responsive to our questions. — Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2026 There’s also a subplot involving John being blackmailed by a café waitress regarding him punching Hal right before he was killed. — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026 Plates and cake forks were distributed by a young waitress also borrowed from Lyons, from the Corner House on Coventry Street, who cut the cakes and handed round slices to the judges. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026 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 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

Noun

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

Definition of barman

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