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barkeeper
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n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
[syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper,
mixologist]
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beekeeper
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n 1: a farmer who keeps bees for their honey [syn: beekeeper,
apiarist, apiculturist]
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beeper
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n 1: an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when
the person carrying it is being paged [syn: beeper,
pager]
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bookkeeper
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n 1: someone who records the transactions of a business
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creeper
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n 1: any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
2: a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn:
crawler, creeper]
3: any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern
hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves
on stiff tail feathers and their feet [syn: creeper, tree
creeper]
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doorkeeper
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n 1: an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or
legislative chamber [syn: usher, doorkeeper]
2: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western
Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church [syn:
doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius]
3: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman,
door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper,
ostiary]
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gamekeeper
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n 1: a person employed to take care of game and wildlife [syn:
gamekeeper, game warden]
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gatekeeper
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n 1: someone who controls access to something; "there are too
many gatekeepers between the field officers and the chief"
2: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman,
door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper,
ostiary]
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goalkeeper
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n 1: the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal
[syn: goalkeeper, goalie, goaltender, netkeeper,
netminder]
2: the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse
team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent
opposing players from scoring [syn: goalkeeper, goalie,
goaltender, netkeeper]
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housekeeper
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n 1: a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a
household
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innkeeper
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n 1: the owner or manager of an inn [syn: host, innkeeper,
boniface]
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keeper
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n 1: someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's
keeper?"
2: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn:
custodian, keeper, steward]
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leaper
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n 1: someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) [syn:
bounder, leaper]
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minesweeper
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n 1: ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or
remove marine mines
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peacekeeper
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n 1: a member of a military force that is assigned (often with
international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area
2: someone who keeps peace; "she's the peacekeeper in that
family"
3: the pistol of a law officer in the old West
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reaper
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n 1: someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: harvester,
reaper]
2: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
[syn: Grim Reaper, Reaper]
3: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields [syn:
harvester, reaper]
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scorekeeper
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n 1: an official who records the score during the progress of a
game [syn: scorekeeper, scorer]
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shopkeeper
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n 1: a merchant who owns or manages a shop [syn: shopkeeper,
tradesman, storekeeper, market keeper]
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sleeper
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n 1: a rester who is sleeping [syn: sleeper, slumberer]
2: a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country
who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a
prearranged signal
3: an unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true
sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
4: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway
track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn:
tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper]
5: a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping
car, sleeper, wagon-lit]
6: pajamas with feet; worn by children
7: a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
8: tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the
bottom in shallow water [syn: sleeper, sleeper goby]
9: an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
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steeper
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n 1: a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping
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storekeeper
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n 1: a merchant who owns or manages a shop [syn: shopkeeper,
tradesman, storekeeper, market keeper]
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sweeper
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n 1: an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
2: a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt
as the implement is pushed over a carpet [syn: carpet
sweeper, sweeper]
3: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an
oblong compressed body
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timekeeper
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n 1: (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed
[syn: timekeeper, timer]
2: a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees
3: a measuring instrument or device for keeping time [syn:
timepiece, timekeeper, horologe]
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peeper
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n 1: a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of
others [syn: voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper]
2: an informal term referring to the eye
3: an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
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weeper
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n 1: a person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier]
2: a hired mourner
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nipa
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n 1: monotypic genus of palms of Australasia [syn: Nipa,
genus Nipa, Nypa, genus Nypa]
2: made from sap of the Australasian nipa palm
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arequipa
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n 1: a city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an
ancient Inca city
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dnieper
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n 1: a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing
south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black
Sea [syn: Dnieper, Dnieper River]
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greenskeeper
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n 1: someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course
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hotelkeeper
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n 1: an owner or manager of hotels [syn: hotelier,
hotelkeeper, hotel manager, hotelman, hosteller]
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bleeper
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cheaper
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deeper
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greenkeeper
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treecreeper
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