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deadline fighter en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Hong-Kong, colloquial) A person who begins work on a project or assignment right before the due date and time.
The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to [...] draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:
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student syndrome