Nixer

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A job or income which is in addition to one's normal employment, generally done in the evening or on weekends; originally, work for payment that was not declared for taxation, now any work that is not part of one's regular job. Ireland, slang

    "2000, Patricia Scanlan, City Lives, Random House (Bantam Books), page 385, 'Ciara, you were getting very well paid. Over the odds in fact. And doing the odd nixer is a hell of a lot different from defrauding your employers,' Devlin retorted angrily."

Example

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"2000, Patricia Scanlan, City Lives, Random House (Bantam Books), page 385, 'Ciara, you were getting very well paid. Over the odds in fact. And doing the odd nixer is a hell of a lot different from defrauding your employers,' Devlin retorted angrily."

Etymology

From nix + -er.

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