slave driver

noun

plural slave drivers

1

: someone who is in charge of making enslaved people work

2

disapproving, sometimes offensive : someone who makes people work very hard

He was a slave driver at work.

Examples of slave driver in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The woman gives the girls two vials of concoctions, one for the zombie and one for the slave driver. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2021

Charles Deslondes, a slave driver of Haitian descent, marshaled an insurrection against the slaver Manuel Andry, turning the tools of the plantation—the axe, the sugar cane knife—against his master. — Kandist Mallett, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2021

What kind of man would say that if God demands a drop of blood in battle for every drop spilled by the slave driver’s whip, well, the judgments of the Lord are right and true? — Michael D. Capaldi, National Review, 24 Oct. 2020

In a federal lawsuit filed on his behalf by civil attorneys in late 2015, Smith compared Edwards to a slave driver. — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for slave driver

• diver
• fiver
• hiver
• kiver
• niver
• stiver
• revivor
• screwdriver
• survivor

Kids Definition

slave driver

noun

1

: someone who is in charge of making enslaved people work

2

disparaging, sometimes offensive : someone who makes people work very hard