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soda jerk

[ soh-duh jurk ]

noun

Informal: Older Use.
  1. a person who prepares and serves sodas and ice cream at a soda fountain.


soda jerk

noun

  1. slang.
    a person who serves at a soda fountain
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of soda jerk1

1910–15, Americanism; soda jerk shortened form of earlier (1880–85) soda jerker
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The Hollywood of the mind is this place where any soda jerk can become Clark Gable, and high school girls suddenly become movie stars.

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Instead he saved $35 in earnings as a soda jerk to take seven flying lessons.

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He was chosen to be the soda jerk because he was smart, efficient and honest.

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The book, which provides travel information, also has lists like traditional soda jerk terms and Japan’s rarest fruits.

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The “new normal” is a fossilized old swamp gargoyle fumbling through notes to answer a simple question about Russia from a soda jerk in an ice cream parlor.

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