barkeeper

American  

[bahr-kee-per] / ˈbɑrˌki pər /

Also barkeep

noun

1. a person who owns or manages a bar where alcoholic beverages are sold.

2. a bartender.

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barkeeper British  

/ ˈbɑːˌkiːpə /

noun

1. another name (esp US) for barman

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Etymology

Origin of barkeeper

First recorded in 1705–15; bar ¹ + keeper

Example Sentences

Last week, for the first time in his career as bomber for the regatta, Barkeeper Bogo let his passion get the best of him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Barkeeper buys watermelons for five cents up the river, brings them down and sells them for fifty.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. by Twain, Mark

I said, "Barkeeper, give us a deck of cards, and we will see who is the lucky man."

From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by Devol, George H.

Interview with the Barkeeper of "The Crescent Hotel."

From Bucholz and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan