gofer
6
7.3
- noun
- /ˈɡoʊfər/
- Informal
- Stan applied for a job and was hired as a gofer to run errands for the team.
- a gofer guy
- gofer or assistant
- gofer job
Examples
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Although she worked as a lowly gofer at a TV station in Chicago where Wes was a newly hired roving reporter, the first time they saw each other was at her second job as hostess of an upscale steakhouse.
Fiction book (2002) -
Yet she was the gofer who got the drinks for the billionaire and his crew.
Fiction book (1990) -
Working as a gofer on production crews?
Fiction book (1991) -
I'd chosen it over an offer to be a gofer boy for a firm of Republican lawyers.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm a gofer at Sotheby's.
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Bennie Redhair, who served as the chief's secretary and gofer, was sitting behind his desk looking very, very nervous.
Fiction book (1993) -
In some instances, teaching assistants will find "teaching" is actually researching for the professor or being a general "gofer."
Academic text (1991) -
Lisa Gorman, one of the partners, is at her desk sorting envelopes and talking quietly to her gofer, Beth Bamforth.
Fiction book (2002) -
After some discussion, Marla postponed graduate school and went to work as a paralegal in downtown Minneapolis, which seemed fine at first but in the end amounted to little more than a poorly paid, coffee-fetching gofer ship.
Fiction book (2002) -
She needed to hire a new gofer—the school year had started, and she no longer had a fifteen-year-old to depend on—to scour the various markets she worked in, search of old men selling used golf balls.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
14
8.0
A person who runs small errands and obeys a boss
4
7.3
A person who does small, unimportant jobs for other people
1
3.9
A man who does small repair jobs around the home
1
8.3
A person who does basic physical work to help others, like cleaning or lifting
1
7.0
A young boy who runs small errands in a hotel or house
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gofer comes from the phrase go for, which means 'to go and get something', so a gofer is someone sent to fetch things or do small tasks in an office. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a busy little gopher that runs around getting things for people.