Gofer

Quick meaning: Gofer is a noun meaning (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

Meaning

(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

Example Sentences

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

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".

Word Forms

• gofers
• go-fer

Synonyms for gofer

Depending on context, synonyms include dogsbody.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aides, go-fer, goofer, footpage, goof-off, doggy.

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