bouncer

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A verbal dispute ensued and Barlow called the bouncer, who is black, a racial slur, and pulled out the knife.

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  1. noun Slang A person employed to expel disorderly persons from a public place, especially a bar.
  2. noun Baseball A ground ball hit in such a way that it bounces.

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  • I tried a few odd jobs--security guard, bouncer, and the like--and washed out of the police academy for many of the same reasons I was not in the military anymore. —  FSF, July 2006
  • The last photograph I had seen of the six-three former bouncer was almost twenty-one years old now, and although he was still a huge man and close to three hundred pounds, he was a prematurely old one. —  The Beach House
  • It looks like your standard infant bouncer, albeit with a slight designer twist, but the 'killer app' is the input for your iPod, or presumably any MP3 player. —  OhGizmo!
  • The frame of this bouncer is like the older bouncers too, a more wirey like metal instead of so much structure so it bounces really nicely with even a little kick. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • A second Bourbon Street bouncer was acquitted Thursday, Aug. 21, of criminal wrongdoing in the death of a visiting Georgia college student whose friends had been turned away from a French Quarter bar on New Year's Eve 2004.
 

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/ˈbaʊnsər/
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