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soda jerk
noun
a person, usually a teenaged boy, who works at a counter at a soda fountain, mixing drinks for customers US, 1910
An abbreviation of the earlier (1889) “soda jerker”.- “Coke ...” Mandon said to the soda jerk. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 244, 1948
- [T]hey go on looking, fabricating preposterous lies about their big scores, cooling off as dishwashers, soda jerks, waiters[.] — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 20, 1953
- [M]y wage as a soda-jerk had been five dollars for an approximate thirty-hour week. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 336, 1953
- It was cool inside, and the soda jerk looked like an angel in his clean, white uniform. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 66, 1964
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