Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) a bartender.

1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1944		‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
1988		Lewin & Lewin Thes. Sl. 34/2: Bartender [...] fizzical culturist.
2003		Daily News 1 Apr. 🌐 One such is the ‘Thesaurus of Slang’, a rather rare publication by Esther and Albert E. Lewin. [...] It is a rather large book and is very interesting and revealing. For instance, a bartender is described as a fizzical culturist, blood as people juice, death as a dirt nap, to be drunk to walk on rocky socks, gasoline as motion lotion.