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The velvet rope's final boss, deciding your night with a glance and a shrug.
means A person employed to control entry to a bar, club, or venue and to remove unruly or unwanted patrons.
from From "bounce" plus the agent suffix "-er." The verb "bounce" began as imitative — the sound of something striking and springing back — and by the 19th century had picked up a slang sense of "to throw out forcibly." An American coinage of that era gave "bouncer" to the man who does the bouncing: not the patron who springs in, but the one who springs you back out the door.
- old name
- Originally meant to bounce drunks out, literally
- face memory
- Top bouncers recall thousands of banned faces instantly
- legal title
- Often licensed as door supervisors in the UK
- physics optional
- De-escalation beats muscle in most real incidents
- shoe science
- Strict dress codes once hid plain crowd-control intent
for instance
zubair ahmed — indian bouncer who threw a 93-year-old woman out of a delhi nightclub in 2019
stevin john — youtube's blippi character who was a nightclub bouncer in portland before fame