variants
or less commonly go-fer
or gopher
informal
: an employee whose duties include running errands : lackey
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By age 13, Vail was working at multiple radio stations as a gofer, soaking up information from DJs.
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Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
Radio station gofer to promoter Lifelong friend Ron Beatty recalls Vail always being passionate about the music business.
—Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
One man, a lowly gofer, testified that he and others were instructed to get cleaning supplies and pick up the mutilated corpses, which were stuffed into plastic garbage bags.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
The group brought in others: a butcher here, a car-wash operator there, in addition to dozens of gofers, petty drug peddlers, and lookouts who kept an eye on the whereabouts of every resident, visitor, and passerby in the G.U.’s areas of control.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
Radio station gofer to promoter Lifelong friend Ron Beatty recalls Vail always being passionate about the music business.
—Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
One man, a lowly gofer, testified that he and others were instructed to get cleaning supplies and pick up the mutilated corpses, which were stuffed into plastic garbage bags.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
The group brought in others: a butcher here, a car-wash operator there, in addition to dozens of gofers, petty drug peddlers, and lookouts who kept an eye on the whereabouts of every resident, visitor, and passerby in the G.U.’s areas of control.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gofer. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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