variants
or less commonly go-fer
or gopher
informal
: an employee whose duties include running errands : lackey
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Largely gofer chores or not, Reid saw those jobs as gateways into the league.
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Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
The son of a railway worker, Ortega got his start as a gofer in a shirt store at age 14.
—Giacomo Tognini, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2026
As a kid in Riverside, 50 miles east of Los Angeles, Bobby went to work as a caddie and a construction gofer.
—Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
As such transfers of power are not the norm, vice presidents can usually be found in unglamorous busy work, at best breaking tie votes in the Senate and at worst serving as White House gofers.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
The son of a railway worker, Ortega got his start as a gofer in a shirt store at age 14.
—Giacomo Tognini, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2026
As a kid in Riverside, 50 miles east of Los Angeles, Bobby went to work as a caddie and a construction gofer.
—Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
As such transfers of power are not the norm, vice presidents can usually be found in unglamorous busy work, at best breaking tie votes in the Senate and at worst serving as White House gofers.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gofer. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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