go-fer

plural go-fers

1. alternativeAlternative form of gofer.

   Or a clerk may be regarded as a paralegal, or even little more than a glorified “go-fer.”

   1976, Student Lawyer, page 43, column 1

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   On a typical day at JPL’s Von Karman Auditorium, one would encounter hard-boiled newspapermen straight out of The Front Page, dedicated young correspondents for obscure scientific periodicals, science-fiction authors, overbearing television correspondents complete with their camera crews and “go-fers,” bewildered feature writers, a small army of Japanese reporters who speak little or no English, and clusters of starry-eyed space enthusiasts who know every line of dialogue in both Star Wars movies.

   1983, Mark Washburn, Distant Encounters: The Exploration of Jupiter and Saturn, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, pages 118–119

   To make ends meet after her graduation from Yale, she was a go-fer for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference.

   2016, Susan Johann, “Wendy Wasserstein”, in Focus on Playwrights: Portraits and Interviews, The University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN