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Etymology edit

cocktail +‎ -ing

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cocktailing (uncountable)

  1. Work as a cocktail waitress.
    • 2011, Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones, Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places, page 35:
      Like housekeeping, cocktailing is at heart hard labor. Genette Louis, a longtime cocktail waitress who was completing a graduate thesis on postmodern theory at the time we interviewed her, had worked in Oregon in forestry and trucking []