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part bartender, part therapist, part bouncer, paid in tips and trauma
means A bartender — the person who pours your drinks, runs the bar, and keeps order behind it.
from A clipped American form of 'barkeeper,' itself simply one who keeps a bar — 'bar' from the literal counter or barrier between server and customer, plus 'keeper' in the old sense of one who tends or manages a place (as in 'shopkeeper' or 'innkeeper'). The shortened 'barkeep' has a brisk saloon-counter feel and turns up in 19th-century American usage, where the long word got trimmed the way a busy bar trims everything down to essentials.
- old word
- barkeeper dates to 1700s American taverns
- free pour
- pros measure by count without a jigger
- hidden job
- reading sobriety and cutting people off diplomatically
- speed record
- top bartenders make 20-plus drinks per minute
sam malone — bartender on cheers who served drinks at the boston bar for 11 seasons
paddy's pub — fictional bar in philadelphia run by dennis reynolds in it's always sunny in philadelphia