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gofer
[goh-fer]
noun
an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
gofer
/ ˈɡəʊə /
noun
slangan employee or assistant whose duties include menial tasks such as running errands
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of gofer1
Example Sentences
Allegations that the WWE turned a blind eye to rampant abuse of "ring boys" — minors taken on by the wrestling promotion to work as gofers — have plagued the company for decades.
He began his career in the film industry in the mid-1930s working as an extra and was a gofer at Denham Film Studios, where he first met Lean, an editor, in 1942.
Our heroine, a funny, foul-mouthed gofer who’s racking up miles driving in Bucharest, has just told her passenger about a road outside the city that has more memorials edging it than it has kilometers.
The two first met at a Western Sizzlin steakhouse in Memphis, at a benefit for Don Ezell, the longtime gofer at Sun Records.
He entered show business at age 16 as a TV mailroom gofer.
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