bartending

From bar +‎ tending.

bartending (uncountable)

1. The craft of mixing drinks, making cocktails, and related skills of tending a bar.
   • 2023, Rylie Dark, Where You Go:

     "I need to know if any of them took a specific drink order recently. An angel shot."
     The manager raised an eyebrow. "Angel shot? Isn't that--"
     Kelly nodded. In the bartending business, it was well known that an "angel shot" wasn't a real drink, but was instead a code word that women could use to signal that they were in trouble.

• mixology

bartending

1. present participle and gerund of bartend