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Gofer

//ˈɡoʊfɚ// noun, slang

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Noun

1
A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. informal
"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"."
2
an employee whose duties include running errands wordnet

Etymology

From go + fer (for), as in “go for coffee” or “go for that document” etc. Possibly also a pun on the rodent gopher, animals known for both their vast tunneling and their hoarding activities.

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