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cocktailing

cocktailing noun: work as a cocktail waitress.

Noun

cocktailing (uncountable)

  1. Work as a cocktail waitress.
    • Like housekeeping, cocktailing is at heart hard labor. Genette Louis, a longtime cocktail waitress who was completing a graduate thesis on postmodern theory at the time we interviewed her, had worked in Oregon in forestry and trucking […]2011, Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones, Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places, page 35

Origin of cocktailing

From cocktail + -ing.

Questions about cocktailing

What does cocktailing mean?
Cocktailing means work as a cocktail waitress.
What part of speech is cocktailing?
Cocktailing is a noun.

Words near cocktailing in the dictionary

  1. cocktaileries
  2. cocktailers
  3. cocktailery
  4. cocktailian
  5. cocktailians
  6. cocktailing
  7. cocktails
  8. cocktailwear
  9. cocktard
  10. cocktards
  11. cocktease

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