counterman
nounEtymology From counter + man.
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US A man who serves behind a counter, especially in a diner.
- I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179:
- There was a cashier up front and behind this long counter were about five countermen, evenly spaced. Each morning Joey and I would sit at the very last station in the back and chitchat with Tony, the counterman there who as a very old guy who usually got your order wrong.1984, John Fox, chapter 15, in The Boys on the Rock, page 85: