Definition of "counterman" []

• A man who tends a counter, as in a diner. (noun)

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• "It is his function to persuade with winged words his adversary, the company's local underwriter or "counterman," that the stock of cheap millinery belonging to the Slavonic gentlemen with the unfortunate record of two fires of unknown origin and two opportune failures is even more desirable -- at the rate -- than the large line on the substantial office building which he half exhibits, holding suggestively back."
• "You know the type comes on with bartenders and cab drivers, talking about right hooks and the Dodgers, call the counterman in Nedick’s by his first name."
• "I stood right there and heard the counterman at Bass P. say exactly that."