weekend warrior

[week-end wawr-ee-er]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Informal.

a reservist who attends weekend meetings of their unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
a person who engages in a hobby or activity only on weekends or in their leisure time and is not considered to be particularly skilled, prepared, etc..
They sell exercise equipment for the casual user and weekend warrior.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of weekend warrior¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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Guardsmen — about 1,000 weekend warriors — stood in the hot sun, rifles at the ready alongside the Gatling gun they brought, facing the railroad strikers camped out in the depot with their wives and children.

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Typically, the store that is nestled along the Los Angeles River bed would be filled with weekend warriors tackling home improvements, workers collecting supplies and immigrants in search of work.

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“How do we service those ‘weekend warriors,’ who are coming in and causing a ruckus?” she said.

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Yet even if Paleolithic runners were more like weekend warriors than full-time marathoners, that’s still a useful skill, they say.

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I was a weekend warrior who pitched in a senior baseball league.

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