nine-to-fiver

noun

Someone who works a nine-to-five job.

Meanings

nounnine-to-fiver (plural nine-to-fivers)

plural nine-to-fivers

  1. Someone who works a nine-to-five job.

    And the welders and the drivers And the old nine to fivers And the regular Joe's of the world

    2011, Toby Keith, Clancy's Tavern
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    The men and women who walk here are an unassuming lot, less the cell-phoned swells of the new Bryant Park than nine-to-fivers needing a smoke.

    1998 August 7, Thomas Mallon, “My Manhattan: Once-Famous Faces Watch Over a Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015

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