Cocktailing

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Work as a cocktail waitress. uncountable

    "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 […]"

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"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 […]"

Etymology

From cocktail + -ing.

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