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bar-tend

bar-tend is the alternative form of bartend.

Meaning of bartend

Verb

bartend (third-person singular simple present bartends, present participle bartending, simple past and past participle bartended)

  1. (intransitive) To tend a bar; to act as a barman.
    • “I bartended in that room,” [Mark Ruffalo] said, gesturing toward a space with cushy chairs.2010 February 7, Ari Karpel, “On His Terms, Unbranded”, in The New York Times

Forms of bar-tend

third-person singular presentbar-tends
present participlebar-tending
past participlebar-tended
pastbar-tended

Questions about bar-tend

What is bar-tend the alternative form of?
Bar-tend is the alternative form of bartend.

Words near bar-tend in the dictionary

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  4. bar-tailed godwit
  5. bar-tailed godwits
  6. bar-tend
  7. bar-tended
  8. bar-tender
  9. bar-tenders
  10. bar-tending
  11. bar-tends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bar-tend (page history and authors); bartend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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