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deadline fighters

deadline fighters is the plural of deadline fighter.

Meaning of deadline fighter

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...

Questions about deadline fighters

What is deadline fighters the plural of?
Deadline fighters is the plural of deadline fighter.

Words near deadline fighters in the dictionary

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

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