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graveyard shifter

graveyard shifter noun: one who works a graveyard shift or is employed in one.

Noun

graveyard shifter (plural graveyard shifters)

  1. One who works a graveyard shift or is employed in one.
    • Although there is no significant difference in the number of hours of sleep the typical graveyard shifter gets as compared to the number of hours of sleep of the average swing shifter, the lower average hours of sleep of the night worker is found to be suggestive.1943, National Research Council (U.S.), Bulletin of the National Research Council, numbers 107-112, page 83
    • Obviously, they were graveyard-shifters as well, and they'd had the same idea we had as to how to pass the time.1998, Michael Jan Friedman, Dujonian's Hoard (Star Trek The Next Generation: The Captain's Table, Book 2), page 39

Forms of graveyard shifter

pluralgraveyard shifters

Origin of graveyard shifter

From graveyard shift + -er.

Questions about graveyard shifter

What does graveyard shifter mean?
Graveyard shifter means one who works a graveyard shift or is employed in one.
What part of speech is graveyard shifter?
Graveyard shifter is a noun.
What is the plural of graveyard shifter?
The plural of graveyard shifter is graveyard shifters.

Words near graveyard shifter in the dictionary

  1. Graveyard of the Atlantic
  2. graveyard orbit
  3. graveyard orbits
  4. graveyard poetry
  5. graveyard shift
  6. graveyard shifter
  7. graveyard shifters
  8. graveyard shifts
  9. graveyard slot
  10. graveyard slots
  11. graveyard spiral

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