Definitions
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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
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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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