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slave driver

slave driver is the alternative form of slave-driver.

Meaning of slave-driver

Noun

slave-driver (plural slave-drivers)

  1. An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work.
    • "That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. (colloquial, excessive, figuratively, usually) An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.
    • He's such a slave-driver! I can't believe he wants us to come in on Saturday.
  3. (broadly, colloquial, excessive, figuratively, humorous, often) Anyone who requests an amount of work from others that is deemed unreasonable.
    • Mom, I need a break after doing homework! You're nothing but a slave-driver!

Forms of slave driver

pluralslave drivers

Questions about slave driver

What is slave driver the alternative form of?
Slave driver is the alternative form of slave-driver.

Words near slave driver in the dictionary

  1. Slave Coast
  2. slave code
  3. slave codes
  4. slave cylinder
  5. slave cylinders
  6. slave driver
  7. slave drivers
  8. Slave Dynasty
  9. slave earring
  10. slave earrings
  11. slave fork

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