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deadliner

deadliner noun: a person who works up until the deadline.

Noun

deadliner (plural deadliners)

  1. A person who works up until the deadline.
    • I was ahead of my deadline so I watched "Flatliners," about some serious deadliners with a headliner complex.1995, Andrei Codrescu, Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio, page 28

Forms of deadliner

pluraldeadliners

Origin of deadliner

From deadline + -er.

Questions about deadliner

What does deadliner mean?
Deadliner means a person who works up until the deadline.
What part of speech is deadliner?
Deadliner is a noun.
What is the plural of deadliner?
The plural of deadliner is deadliners.

Words near deadliner in the dictionary

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

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