Nixer
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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