gofer

Definitions

A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

informal

Equivalents

Examples

“They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw⟳ — which was women running a record⟳ company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw⟳ a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work⟳ except as secretaries and "go-fers".”

“More and more people agreed to help⟳ with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.”

CEFR level