desk jockey
Example Sentences
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Seth is a by-the-book desk jockey; Bud ignores the rules when they interfere with undead evisceration.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022
In the first episode, the TVA paperwork clerk can be seen playing solitaire on his tiny orange-hued monitor, and you get the feeling he isn’t the only desk jockey running games on their work computer.
From The Verge • Jul. 13, 2021
How’s a desk jockey supposed to choose between health care and international law?
From Salon • Nov. 13, 2019
“Not that fool weakling Keith,” declares the desk jockey at Time Safari Inc. “We got an iron man now, a man with guts!”
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2016
It humanizes a man who almost immediately became controversialized as a naive, self-important desk jockey or, worse, a handmaiden to terrorists everywhere.
From Washington Post
