soda jerk

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soda jerk (plural soda jerks)

  1. (US, idiomatic, dated) A person who works at a soda fountain.
    • 1943 January, John York Cabot, “Rats in the Belfry”, in Amazing Stories‎:
      Looking at it, serenely topping that crazy-quilt house, I had the impression of its being an outrageously squashed cherry topping, the whipped cream of as madly a concocted sundae that a soda jerk ever made. A pleasant impression.

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