bar-tend

English

Verb

bar-tend (third-person singular simple present bar-tends, present participle bar-tending, simple past and past participle bar-tended)

1. Alternative form of bartend
   • 2004, David Bereznak, The Devil's Kitchen:

     He bar-tended at the fire station whenever he was needed and worked all kinds of odd jobs, anything that needed to be done he could do it.

   • 2004, Janelle Taylor, Dying To Marry:

     But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.

   • 2011, Vincent Robillard, The Devil Sure Does: The Anti-Biography of Nathan Dawn, page 3:

     Theresa had planned to bar-tend Darwin's Theory for one year.

Anagrams

• Barendt, tend bar