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go-fer

go-fer is the alternative form of gofer.

Meaning of gofer

Noun

gofer (plural gofers)

  1. (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
    • They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that...1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9
    Synonyms:
    dogsbody

Forms of go-fer

pluralgo-fers

Questions about go-fer

What is go-fer the alternative form of?
Go-fer is the alternative form of gofer.

Words near go-fer in the dictionary

  1. go-fast boat
  2. go-fast boats
  3. go-faster stripe
  4. go-faster stripes
  5. go-fasts
  6. go-fer
  7. go-fers
  8. go-getter
  9. go-getterness
  10. go-getters
  11. go-getting

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