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nine-to-fiver en · NOUN

Etymology

From nine-to-five + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who works a nine-to-five job.
   • And the welders and the drivers And the old nine to fivers And the regular Joe's of the world 2011, Toby Keith, Clancy's Tavern:
   • The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke. 1998 August 7, Thomas Mallon, “My Manhattan: Once-Famous Faces Watch Over a Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:

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