barista
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- noun
- /bəˈristə/
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barista
- As a barista, she quickly learned how to make all kinds of coffee drinks.
- barista coffee
- local barista
- barista training
I saw you look at the barista that way, right?
- I saw you look at the barista that way, right?
- So I was like barista, grocery clerk, valet.
- We're considering the usual suspects, barista, cashier, etcetera.
- You go to Starbucks and order with your barista.
- My last glorious day as a Starbucks barista.
- So I'm a barista and sometimes I give decaf coffee to rude customers.
- Anyway, Oh my God, I hear the way they speak to some of these baristas.
- And the and the barista says, hey, you look like you're from Colorado.
- You know, I would love to have that, you know, or start a coffee shop somewhere and be a barista and just excuse me, meet people all day.
- Then if on the way to work, they stop in the coffee shop and they're kind to the barista, they get on the bus to work and they're kind to the bus driver.
- So give me a normie job, give me a normal job, name a normie job, making coffee, making coffee, Boom, you're a barista.
- You know, and a great example was we had a not a barista, a guy at a bodega or a Bogada, as Jill Biden calls it.
Examples
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Your first job was a barista at a Barnes and Noble.
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I mean, what happens if the barista gets the coffee order wrong?
Blog text (1) -
I saw you look at the barista that way, right?
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I used to be a barista.
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Your unique barista skills have been requested.
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I'd finished college, finished an MA, and was working as a barista, which made me hate myself.
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What do we do when we get cut off in traffic or the barista messes up our coffee order?
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It's a coffeehouse, and I'm a barista, not a bar maid.
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One of the baristas learned how to make a cappuccino through trial and error.
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He worked as a barista at a popular café, where he served lattes and cappuccinos.
Synonyms
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A person who makes and serves coffee for others
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Morphology
Etymology
Barista comes from Italian: bar is a place that serves drinks and the ending -ista means 'a person who works there'. So, a barista is someone who works behind the counter making and serving coffee drinks.