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"word": "baby bouncer"
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"word": "shop-bouncer"
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"name": "affix"
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"etymology_text": "From bounce + -er.",
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"ref": "2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117",
"text": "At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]",
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"A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc. to decide who can enter, maintain order, and deal with patrons who cause trouble."
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"bar",
"bar"
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[
"nightclub",
"nightclub"
],
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"maintain",
"maintain"
],
[
"patron",
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],
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"trouble",
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"(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc. to decide who can enter, maintain order, and deal with patrons who cause trouble."
],
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{
"word": "doorman"
},
{
"word": "chucker-out"
}
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"informal"
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"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"word": "portier"
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{
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"code": "af",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"word": "uitsmyter"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"word": "atezain"
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"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"word": "diskotekako atezain"
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"masculine"
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"word": "porter"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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],
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"word": "duravørður"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "videur"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "porteiro"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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"roman": "brávos",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μπράβος"
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"roman": "portiéris",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"word": "kidobóember"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "doirseoir slándála"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"masculine"
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"word": "buttafuori"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"masculine"
],
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"word": "fliantcheux hors"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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"word": "bramkarz"
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"word": "wykidajło"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "leão-de-chácara"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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"word": "segurança"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "leão de chácara"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "portar"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyšibála",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "вышиба́ла"
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"_dis1": "73 2 1 4 5 1 3 7 3 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
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"word": "избацивач"
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"_dis1": "73 2 1 4 5 1 3 7 3 1",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "portero"
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"word": "gorila"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"word": "puerta"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"common-gender"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head."
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[
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[
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"One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving."
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"(dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving."
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"ref": "1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Modern Greece”, in Blackwood's Magazine",
"text": "The stone must be a bouncer.",
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"word": "whopper"
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"ref": "1877, W. S. Gilbert, “Engaged”, in Original Plays, Second Series, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 83",
"text": "\"… when he wants to accomplish his purpose, he does not hesitate to invent—I am not quite sure of the word, but I think it is “bouncers.”",
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"A bouncy castle."
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"ref": "2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, pages 82–83",
"text": "He shook his head and took up the child—Dilly kicked out her feet in tiny electric jolts to the full stretch of the Babygro.[…]He put the child in the bouncer again.",
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"ref": "2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, pages 82–83",
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"word": "portier"
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],
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"word": "portsari"
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{
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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{
"code": "de",
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{
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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{
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
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{
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "portar"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyšibála",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "вышиба́ла"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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"word": "избацивач"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
"Spain",
"colloquial",
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
"tags": [
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"colloquial"
],
"word": "patovica"
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{
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of security personnel",
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "member of security personnel",
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"common-gender"
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{
"code": "cy",
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{
"code": "cy",
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"word": "drysor"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
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"code": "cy",
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