Meanings
plural nine-to-fivers
- 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 Tavern1 more example
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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