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graveyard shifter en · NOUN

Etymology

From graveyard shift + -er.

Meanings

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:

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