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deadline fighter

deadline fighter noun: a person who begins work on a project or assignment right before the due date and time.

Noun

deadline fighter (plural deadline fighters)

  1. (Hong-Kong, colloquial) A person who begins work on a project or assignment right before the due date and time.
    • The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to [...] draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...

Forms of deadline fighter

pluraldeadline fighters

Questions about deadline fighter

What does deadline fighter mean?
Deadline fighter means a person who begins work on a project or assignment right before the due date and time.
What part of speech is deadline fighter?
Deadline fighter is a noun.
What is the plural of deadline fighter?
The plural of deadline fighter is deadline fighters.

Words near deadline fighter in the dictionary

  1. deadlights
  2. deadlihood
  3. deadlike
  4. deadlily
  5. deadline
  6. deadline fighter
  7. deadline fighters
  8. deadlined
  9. deadliner
  10. deadliners
  11. deadlines

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