bar-keep

  • 1bar|keep — «BAHR KEEP», noun, verb, kept, keep|ing. –n. U.S. a barkeeper. –v.i. British. to tend a bar …

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  • 2bar|keep|er — «BAHR KEE puhr», noun. 1. a person who owns or manages a bar where alcoholic drinks are sold. 2. a man who serves alcoholic drinks to customers at a bar; bartender …

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  • 3bar·keep — …

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  • 4bar — 1 / bär/ n often attrib 1 a: the railing in a courtroom that encloses the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the court is transacted in civil cases compare bench 1, dock …

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  • 5Keep — (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I… …

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  • 6BAR MITZVAH, BAT MITZVAH — (Heb. masc. בַּר מִצְוָה, fem. בַּת מִצְוָה; lit. son/daughter of the commandment, i.e., a person under obligation, responsible), term denoting both the attainment of religious and legal maturity as well as the occasion at which this status is… …

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  • 7Keep the Aspidistra Flying —   …

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  • 8bar — bar1 [bär] n. [ME & OFr barre < ML barra, bar, barrier, prob. < Gaul * barros, the bushy end, akin to Ir bar, branch < IE * bhoros, cut wood < base * bher , to cut with a sharp tool] 1. any piece of wood, metal, etc. longer than it is …

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  • 9Keep Smiling — Fundación 2008 Sede Argentina …

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  • 10bar — [n1] rod; straight length of material batten, billet, boom, crossbar, crosspiece, ingot, lever, paling, pig, pole, rail, rib, rule, shaft, slab, spar, spoke, stake, stick, streak, strip, stripe, stroke; concepts 470,471 bar [n2] barrier; blockage …

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