graveyard shift

Noun

Meaning

workers who work during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.)

the work shift during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

night shift night watch swing shift dogwatch nightshift middle watch graveyard watch midwatch lobster shift night work night service midnight shift night duty late shift lobster trick
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Antonyms

day shift day job daywork dayshift day watch day work
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Hypernyms

shift work shift duty period

Related terms

graveyard watch

Examples

I used to work the graveyard shift. Bradley Cooper

I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters. Boyd Holbrook

He first came to Nashville 17 years ago, a scrappy wanna-be songwriter who made ends meet answering phones on the Shop at Home Network’s graveyard shift. Source: Internet

Does southwest have a graveyard shift? Source: Internet

In "First Person Shooter," a couple who work the graveyard shift at WorldMart encounter a "sort of pretty in a melancholy way" zombie woman who has misplaced a finger and becomes mesmerized by House of the Dead Two, showing in the television department. Source: Internet

Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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