barkeep

plural barkeeps

1. informalA bartender.

   Barkeep, a couple of beers here, please?

   1999: Frasier (TV, episode 6.13)

   1 more example

   I sez to the barkeep' o' the hotel, "Show me the biggest doctor here."

   1873, Bret Harte, Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands

present singular third person barkeeps · participle present barkeeping · participle past barkeeped · past barkeeped

1. intransitiveTo bartend; to keep a bar; to act as a barkeep.

   I barkeeped in Pontiac, Michigan and, later in Detroit and Ypsilanti.

   2001, Bert G. Osterberg, chapter 1, in Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes from a Nineteenth Century Barkeeper, page 24