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An example use of bouncer in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… to a bar bouncer ask for your ID the law …”
A bouncer is a person who is employed to control access to a venue, such as a nightclub, bar, or concert.
the word bouncer occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bouncer can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;