saloonkeeper
noun
saloonkeeper is a noun meaning “someone who owns or operates a saloon (drinking establishment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-O-O-N-K-E-E-P-E-R, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of saloonkeeper is saloonkeepers.
What does saloonkeeper mean?
noun
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USsomeone who owns or operates a saloon (drinking establishment)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of saloonkeeper
- saloonkeepers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is saloonkeeper?
Saloonkeeper appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does saloonkeeper come from?
From saloon + keeper.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).