soda jerk
soda jerker

He was just a soda jerk, as we called them at the time.

One of his first jobs was as a soda jerk.

At 13, he dropped out of school to work as a soda jerk.

"My first job was as a soda jerk," he says, using the English words.

He was put to work as a soda jerk.

He spent his teenage years as an art student and soda jerk, along with other odd jobs.

No one was in it but the soda jerk.

The soda jerk pushed the money back to him.

Thus, the etymology of the word is similar to the more American term "soda jerk".

Every customer knew the recipe and watched the soda jerk closely, he said.

He also worked a string of odd jobs, from soda jerk to singer.

He occupied a special place in the hearts of Village residents since the day a soda jerk brought him around.

"You don't like it, try the immigrant soda jerk down the block."

Before the war, Fred had been an unskilled drugstore soda jerk.

Marie makes it clear she does not enjoy being married to a lowly soda jerk.

She also worked as a waitress, sandwich maker, soda jerk and cashier.

The expression soda jerk, which had nothing to do with personality, slipped into the American lexicon.

During high school he worked part-time as a drugstore soda jerk and delivered groceries.

He held a succession of jobs after leaving school: soda jerk, insurance investigator, office clerk.

The soda jerk had the malted in the machine.

The local also included pharmacists, pharmacy clerks and "soda jerks".

The others often fear they will end up the journalistic equivalents of soda jerks at Schwab's.

Gee, there's the drugstore where he worked as a soda jerk; there's his 94-year-old teacher.

She also met her future husband, Herbert Engel, who worked there as a soda jerk; they were married in 1952.

So wear 88 all you like, and if you have nightmares about 666, as soda jerks used to say - I'm 86 on the mail.

Consequently the tap handle was typically large, as a busy shop would have the soda jerker using it frequently.

William Bakewell, a soda jerker, is madly in love with White and has even asked her father for his consent to their marriage.

Working as a soda jerker in his teenage years, Kuhnau found himself unable to digest the very malts, shakes, and floats he was preparing, due to a lactose intolerance.

A soda jerk (or soda jerker) is a person - typically a youth - who operates the soda fountain in a drugstore, often for the purpose of preparing and serving flavored soda water or an ice cream soda.