bouncer
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While Hitchcock required use of a fake-ID scanner, he said that he couldn’t control all of his employees and that the bouncer who let in patrons with fake IDs was fired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Andy Pages chopped a slow bouncer up the middle, and Turner charged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“The Scottish men I ran into in Boston were SO respectful and nice that it actually made me remember what it’s like to not have to be my own bouncer in public,” read one.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Root has been chosen over vice-captain Harry Brook, who was overlooked amid his own off-field controversy in Wellington when he was clocked by a bouncer the night before a white-ball game last winter.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
It’s basically the bouncer at the door telling you, “We can’t let you in because of your friend Darren and his ugly shoes.”
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
This would allow the bouncers to be seen on camera checking an ID even while letting people slip past anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"Then you have to prop it up with junior artistes, which is an additional expenditure besides catering, electricity, vanity vans and bouncers."
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Smith became visibly angry when describing a billboard in the county promoting ICE as “the bouncers of America.”
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Potts was asked to bowl one more futile spell of bouncers, with the maddening Smith playing tennis-style smashes and signalling a wide to the umpires.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
I focused my eyes on the two bouncers at the front door.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
