gofer

variants or gopher

Examples of gofer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When Grainge was seventeen, a talent agent in Soho hired him as a sandwich guy, the lowliest gofer. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024 Though her daughter, who just started playing the cello, will join Giddens in Ojai as a gofer. Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023 His career in music started as a gofer at A&L Record Distributors before becoming general manager for Philly Groove Records. Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 In its first sequence, a harried gofer named Manny Torres (played by Diego Calva) tries to transport an elephant into the Hollywood Hills for a big-shot producer’s party, a farcical task that ends with the elephant pooping on the camera lens—in a way, on the viewers themselves. David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for gofer 

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.

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