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Definition of gofer in English: gofer(North American gopher) noun ˈɡəʊfəˈɡoʊfər informal A person who runs errands, especially on a film set or in an office; a dogsbody. he had worked his way from a gofer in the front office to general manager Example sentencesExamples - Add to that team two cameramen, Sharp, a Billabong rep, me, and a half-dozen Chilean journalists and gofers - and you had one long caravan anytime the surfers set out to look for waves.
- I personally, had never before been one of these said gophers, and had never been granted the privilege of entering the teacher's lounge.
- This earth-shattering news was reported straight and at length in the papers, which is a tribute of sorts to Jack Irvine, his PR gopher.
- These ‘miniature jobs’ so to speak tend to involve a lot of grit work and a bit of being a gopher, but they also provide a valuable learning experience.
- They started giving writing jobs to people who were driving trucks the week before, gofers, film editors.
- And though it breaks my heart to say it, he tried his damnedest to keep the club going towards the end but, ultimately, he was no more than a gofer for others behind the scenes.
- Today I've done the gofer's job and I've been the gofer.
- Employed in the mailroom at CBC and called upon once in a while to do part-time stagehand chores, I jumped at the chance to work on Ninety Minutes Live for a week, much of it spent being a gopher for the host.
- Even as a gopher and junior bag man, he knows that he ‘was a part of something.’
- Although, the extra key would go to a parent or sibling when they got there; that person who would become the gopher if either of them needed something out of their room but had no time to go get it.
- If she's just a secretary or a gopher, though, she might have some First Amendment rights.
- My first job after leaving school was at a small electronics company in Kirkcaldy, where I was a general gofer, but subsequently I learned to make wiring harnesses and populate printed circuit boards.
- I was the one person that Nick Ray asked to be his gofer or assistant, so I was an odd factor.
- Staff wearing Disney-esque headsets look like dress-up gofers on a film set.
- I actually started out of college as a gopher, a runner for a company called Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions.
- Now I am a gopher in waiting at the Hyde Park Theatre.
- Tom makes himself handy to the couple, running errands and serving as a de facto gofer.
- She's got tons of resources, assistants and gophers.
- The name, if credited at all, is usually down there with the clapperboard guy and the gofer who fetches the clapperboard guy's coffee.
- Both use gophers to put forward idealogically extreme positions on target issues.
Synonyms subordinate, deputy, auxiliary, second, second in command, number two, lieutenant, right-hand man, right-hand woman, wingman, aide, personal assistant, pa, attendant, mate, apprentice, junior
Origin 1960s: from go for (i.e. go and fetch). Rhymes chauffeur, goffer, gopher, loafer, Nuku'alofa, Ophir, shofar, sofa Definition of gofer in US English: gofer(North American gopher) nounˈɡoʊfərˈɡōfər informal A person who runs errands, especially on a movie set or in an office. he had worked his way from a gofer in the front office to general manager Example sentencesExamples - I personally, had never before been one of these said gophers, and had never been granted the privilege of entering the teacher's lounge.
- And though it breaks my heart to say it, he tried his damnedest to keep the club going towards the end but, ultimately, he was no more than a gofer for others behind the scenes.
- My first job after leaving school was at a small electronics company in Kirkcaldy, where I was a general gofer, but subsequently I learned to make wiring harnesses and populate printed circuit boards.
- These ‘miniature jobs’ so to speak tend to involve a lot of grit work and a bit of being a gopher, but they also provide a valuable learning experience.
- Today I've done the gofer's job and I've been the gofer.
- Add to that team two cameramen, Sharp, a Billabong rep, me, and a half-dozen Chilean journalists and gofers - and you had one long caravan anytime the surfers set out to look for waves.
- She's got tons of resources, assistants and gophers.
- I actually started out of college as a gopher, a runner for a company called Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions.
- Although, the extra key would go to a parent or sibling when they got there; that person who would become the gopher if either of them needed something out of their room but had no time to go get it.
- Both use gophers to put forward idealogically extreme positions on target issues.
- The name, if credited at all, is usually down there with the clapperboard guy and the gofer who fetches the clapperboard guy's coffee.
- Even as a gopher and junior bag man, he knows that he ‘was a part of something.’
- They started giving writing jobs to people who were driving trucks the week before, gofers, film editors.
- Staff wearing Disney-esque headsets look like dress-up gofers on a film set.
- Now I am a gopher in waiting at the Hyde Park Theatre.
- Tom makes himself handy to the couple, running errands and serving as a de facto gofer.
- If she's just a secretary or a gopher, though, she might have some First Amendment rights.
- This earth-shattering news was reported straight and at length in the papers, which is a tribute of sorts to Jack Irvine, his PR gopher.
- I was the one person that Nick Ray asked to be his gofer or assistant, so I was an odd factor.
- Employed in the mailroom at CBC and called upon once in a while to do part-time stagehand chores, I jumped at the chance to work on Ninety Minutes Live for a week, much of it spent being a gopher for the host.
Synonyms subordinate, deputy, auxiliary, second, second in command, number two, lieutenant, right-hand man, right-hand woman, wingman, aide, personal assistant, pa, attendant, mate, apprentice, junior
Origin 1960s: from go for (i.e. go and fetch). |