bouncer
noun
bounc·er
ˈbau̇n(t)-sər 
Examples of bouncer in a Sentence
The batter hit a bouncer to the shortstop.
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Richter was working as a bouncer at an adjacent bar and was called to help the Brass Bull’s staff fend off McKay’s group, Assistant Campbell County Commonwealth's Attorney Michael Zimmerman said at a previous court hearing.
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Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2024
In 2013, bartenders, drink runners and bouncers were arrested in the resort’s nightclubs and pool parties for offering drugs and prostitutes to undercover police officers posed as partygoers (one staffer attempted to sell a cop a full pound of cocaine).
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
Sometimes the lines grow so long outside a shop in Brooklyn, New York, the owners have to call in a bouncer.
—Natalie Bennett, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Woody Harrelson plays the McCain strategist/bouncer Steve Schmidt, all shoulders and gleaming cranium; Ed Harris plays a rambunctious, foulmouthed, wide-eyed McCain; and Julianne Moore, from a place of truly Strasbergian inwardness, plays Palin.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2024
In 2013, bartenders, drink runners and bouncers were arrested in the resort’s nightclubs and pool parties for offering drugs and prostitutes to undercover police officers posed as partygoers (one staffer attempted to sell a cop a full pound of cocaine).
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
Sometimes the lines grow so long outside a shop in Brooklyn, New York, the owners have to call in a bouncer.
—Natalie Bennett, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Woody Harrelson plays the McCain strategist/bouncer Steve Schmidt, all shoulders and gleaming cranium; Ed Harris plays a rambunctious, foulmouthed, wide-eyed McCain; and Julianne Moore, from a place of truly Strasbergian inwardness, plays Palin.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Bouncer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bouncer. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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bouncer
noun
bounc·er
ˈbau̇n(t)-sər
: one that bounces
especially
: someone employed in a public place to remove troublemakers
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