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bartend

bartend verb: to tend a bar; to act as a barman.

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
    • Jimmy used to scallop from October to March and bartend a few shifts here and there over the summers when scalloping is prohibited.2012, Lisa Genova, Love Anthony, →ISBN

Forms of bartend

third-person singular presentbartends
present participlebartending
past participlebartended
pastbartended
alternative formbar-tend

Origin of bartend

Back-formation from bartender.

Questions about bartend

What does bartend mean?
Bartend means to tend a bar; to act as a barman.
What part of speech is bartend?
Bartend is a verb.
What is the past tense of bartend?
The past tense of bartend is bartended.

Words near bartend in the dictionary

  1. Bartells
  2. Bartels
  3. Bartelt
  4. Bartelts
  5. Barten
  6. bartend
  7. bartended
  8. bartender
  9. bartenderess
  10. bartenderesses
  11. bartenders

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