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  • noun US The management of a saloon (drinking establishment).

Etymologies

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saloon +‎ keeping

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Examples

  • Then Smith went into quartz-mining; then into quartz-milling; then into hydraulics and ditching, and then by easy degrees into saloonkeeping.

    Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869

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