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bartending

bartending noun: the craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar. Also the present participle and gerund of bartend.

Noun

bartending (uncountable)

  1. The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.
    • "I need to know if any of them took a specific drink order recently. An angel shot."
      The manager raised an eyebrow. "Angel shot? Isn't that--"
      Kelly nodded. In the bartending business, it was well known that an "angel shot" wasn't a real drink, but was instead a code word that women could use to...2023, Rylie Dark, Where You Go

Also used as

bartending is also the present participle and gerund of bartend.

Origin of bartending

From bar + tending.

Words formed from bartending

Questions about bartending

What does bartending mean?
Bartending means the craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.
What part of speech is bartending?
Bartending is a noun.

Words near bartending in the dictionary

  1. bartended
  2. bartender
  3. bartenderess
  4. bartenderesses
  5. bartenders
  6. bartending
  7. bartendress
  8. bartendresses
  9. bartends
  10. Bartens
  11. barter

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