bar-tend

A form of bartend — To tend a bar; to act as a barman.

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Meanings

verbbar-tend (third-person singular simple present bar-tends, present participle bar-tending, simple past and past participle bar-tended)

present singular third person bar-tends · participle present bar-tending · participle past bar-tended · past bar-tended

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bartend.

    Theresa had planned to bar-tend Darwin's Theory for one year.

    2011, Vincent Robillard, The Devil Sure Does: The Anti-Biography of Nathan Dawn, page 3
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    He bar-tended at the fire station whenever he was needed and worked all kinds of odd jobs, anything that needed to be done he could do it.

    2004, David Bereznak, The Devil's Kitchen

    But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.

    2004, Janelle Taylor, Dying To Marry
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APA

bar-tend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bar-tend

MLA

“bar-tend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bar-tend. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bar-tend,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bar-tend.

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