Meaning of nixer | Babel Free

Definitions

A job or income which is in addition to one's normal employment, generally done in the evening or on weekends; originally, work for payment that was not declared for taxation, now any work that is not part of one's regular job.

Ireland, slang

Examples

“2000, Patricia Scanlan, City Lives, Random House (Bantam Books), page 385, 'Ciara, you were getting very well paid. Over the odds in fact. And doing the odd nixer is a hell of a lot different from defrauding your employers,' Devlin retorted angrily.”

“2002 [Ashgate Publishing], Ullrich Kockel, Regional Culture and Economic Development, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 51, Although this advice was given with a view to allowing Séamus to continue in farming while maintaining his factory job, the success of this innovation, which was largely financed by savings facilitated through ‘nixers’ and poteen sales – was such that Séamus quit his job, and is now enjoying a higher level of total income than before: His flock productivity has almost doubled, and quality improved considerably as the weaning rate rose.”

“2024, Seamus O'Rourke, Leaning on Gates, Gill (Gill Books), unnumbered page, He asked me if I was interested in doing a nixer. I didn't know what a nixer was. I was so sheltered in my little safe nine-to-five working world that I didn't realise there was another world out there with less emphasis on clock-watching and more on making money. 'A nixer – a couple of evenings' work for cash.' 'Oh,' I said, 'that sounds good to me.'”

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