variants
or less commonly go-fer
or gopher
informal
: an employee whose duties include running errands : lackey
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After treating the divas to a lovely performance on harp, the gofer can’t resist a bit of braggadocio.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
By age 13, Vail was working at multiple radio stations as a gofer, soaking up information from DJs.
—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
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
By age 13, Vail was working at multiple radio stations as a gofer, soaking up information from DJs.
—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
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gofer. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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