gofer
Example Sentences
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Jimmy, of course, insists on bringing Chuck everything he needs despite Chuck reminding Jimmy that he has the means to hire a gofer.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022
Sondheim, who served as a gofer during summer rehearsals for the 1947 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Allegro,” graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., with a bachelor’s degree in music in 1950.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
He was a gofer, a 14-year-old kid working backstage in a play that I was doing at Hull House, which was the beginning of the theater movement in Chicago.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2021
As a teenager Wallace worked as a gofer for Walter Cronkite at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
He tried to keep himself calm, but by the time a gofer commed him and squirted directions to the main ballroom, he was a wreck.
From Super Man and the Bug Out by Cory Doctorow
