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View synonyms for graveyard shift
graveyard shift
noun
- a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- those who work this shift.
graveyard shift
noun
- the working shift between midnight and morning
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Word History and Origins
Origin of graveyard shift1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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Example Sentences
A man took the bus home from the graveyard shift, bone-tired but dreaming big dreams for his son.
From The Daily Beast
After several rounds of unemployment he secured—with gratitude—a graveyard shift as a private guard at a nuclear-waste site.
From The Daily Beast
Not once had she hesitated or turned from the beaten trail, but she had gone down after the graveyard shift.
From Project Gutenberg
Another time as the graveyard shift came to the surface the men noticed a peculiar wavering light in the sky.
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