back shift

British  

noun

1. a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked

2. the period worked

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Example Sentences

The Emergency Room nurses who go back shift after shift.

From Slate

The muscles of his back shift beneath his T-shirt.

From Literature

"We can have some change in our clock - a couple of hours - but then on days off, it goes right back. Shift workers never adapt."

From BBC

And a cut back, shift inside, do-it-yourself goal to round it off.

From The Guardian

Cuckoo felt the little dog's back shift against her stretched-out toes, and suddenly a bitter flood of red ran over her thin, half-starved face, and she hid it in the tumbled pillow, pressing it down.

From Project Gutenberg