What is "barkeeps"

Usage examples of "barkeeps".

The club had never done well, and without a variety of minor criminal activities—the barkeeps ran a sports-betting business, and a back room became an informal office for a fence and a branch office for one of Ross’s loan sharks—the place would have closed fifteen years earlier.

Not unnaturally, the barkeeps considered the two as poor credit risks at the moment.

That was a little odd: Mike usually only needs help on weekends, when the crowd is thickest, and there weren’t enough customers tonight to justify two barkeeps.

That was a little odd: Mike usually only needs help on weekends, when the crowd is thickest, and there weren't enough customers tonight to justify two barkeeps.

The smell of fried grease was so heavy we hesitated, but I looked into the dark bar and saw captains' chairs for the customers facing the pit where the barkeeps worked.

They’d talked to cobblers’ daughters, tanners and sons, barkeeps, and even low-ranking gentry.