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graveyard shifters

graveyard shifters is the plural of graveyard shifter.

Meaning of graveyard shifter

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

Questions about graveyard shifters

What is graveyard shifters the plural of?
Graveyard shifters is the plural of graveyard shifter.

Words near graveyard shifters in the dictionary

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

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