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noun

• "bartender".

  Hey, barkeep, could I get another one?

  • See more words with the same meaning: liquor store, alcohol sales.
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  Last edited on May 03 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 03 2010.

notes

• Attested from at least 1873.

                                                                                                                                                 
  
  Citation from "Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and other stories", Bret Harte, circa 1873 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on May 03 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 03 2010.

noun

• an imaginary creature to blame flatulence on. Appears in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1973).

  Speaker: Did you just fart?
  
  Response: No, there must be a Barking Spider in here.

  • See more words with the same meaning: mythical people, creatures, and conditions (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: to flatulate, fart, pass gas.

  Last edited on Nov 07 1999. Submitted by Mark L. from Newburyport, MA, USA on Nov 07 1999.

noun

• the fly (zipper) on one's pants.

  Your barn door is open.

  I can see the Fruit of Your Loom.

  Your cow's out of the barn.

  Your privates are public.

  I see London and France.

  Please put the lid on your pickle jar.

  Feeling a little drafty?

  I see you like lace.

  (While golfing) You got a One-In-Hole.

  Batten down your hatch.

  • See more words with the same meaning: fly, zipper.

  Last edited on Feb 21 2015. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 02 2003.