deadline fighter

noun

A person who begins work on a project or assignment right before the due date and time.

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Meanings

noundeadline fighter (plural deadline fighters)

plural deadline fighters

  1. Hong KongcolloquialA person who begins work on a project or assignment right before the due date and time.

    The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to [...] draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.

    2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146
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APA

deadline fighter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deadline%20fighter

MLA

“deadline fighter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deadline%20fighter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deadline fighter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deadline%20fighter.

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