count·er·man

[koun-ter-man]
noun, plural count·er·men.
a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.

Origin:
1850–55; counter1 + man1

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counterman

noun
someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) [syn: counterperson
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Counterman is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
They all spun on the stools even after the counterman closed the fountain down.
The counterman pulled out a brisket that had been in the smoker for fifteen hours and distributed samples.
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