saloon keeper


noun
  1. a person who owns or operates a saloon.

Origin of saloon keeper

1
First recorded in 1840–50

Words Nearby saloon keeper

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How to use saloon keeper in a sentence

  • "I told you there wasn't any such thing there," the saloon-keeper heard him say triumphantly, when the geography arrived.

    Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • The Polish saloon-keeper loses his liquor license if he fails to line up his fellow-countrymen for the local machine.

    The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth Ross
  • During the Crusade, a saloon-keeper (at Ocean Grove) consented to close his business.

  • There was a saloon-keeper brought from Greenfield to H—— to be tried under the Adair law.

  • The saloon-keeper drew one of the policemen aside, and spoke earnestly and excitedly to him.

    Frank Merriwell's Races | Burt L. Standish