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Definition of Barkeeps
1. barkeep [n] - See also: barkeep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barkeeps
Literary usage of Barkeeps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insurgent Mexico by JOHN. REED (1914)
"I awoke to the song of the lark: Oh, what a hangover I have, and the barkeeps
won't trust me! "0 God, take away this sickness, I feel as if I were surely ..."
2. The Powers that Prey by Josiah Flynt, Alfred Hodder (1900)
"Some day I'll stagger into a hole, an' the barkeeps won't have any more Barnie
to baste, an' the girls won't have to chip in an' help pay for my song. ..."
3. Handset Reminiscences: Recollections of an Old-time Printer and Journalist by Jared Benedict Graham (1915)
"Billy took in a fat wad that night, but the other barkeeps had it in for him ever
after. If in any week Hank Williams didn't hand out a "swell" Sunday ..."
4. Smashing Through "the World War" by Edward D. Sirois, William McGinnis (1919)
"... With canteen spigots flowin', 'Til the barkeeps out of ice. For it's PAY-DAY,
PAY-DAY, PAY-DAY; Can't you hear the bugles call? ..."
5. The War-whirl in Washington by Frank Ward O'Malley (1918)
"Not only the much abused government " workers," but the elevator-boys, waiters,
the shop clerks in F Street, even the barkeeps who looked gloomily toward ..."
6. The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin (1911)
""Which, undoubted, the barkeeps is the hardest- worked folks in camp." " Which it
is some late for night before last, but it's jest the shank of the evening ..."
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