DoorDasher

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From DoorDash +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

DoorDasher (plural DoorDashers)

  1. An employee of DoorDash, a San Francisco–based company that operates an online food ordering and food delivery platform.
    Synonym: Dasher
    • 2017 March 18, Tracey Lien, “Delivery apps become a core part of business”, in Los Angeles Times, page A9:
      And Mendocino Farms is opening three locations this year: in Del Mar Highlands, Santa Ana and Studio City, each with bigger to-go areas, more spacious waiting areas for DoorDashers and enough floor space around the seating to accommodate its red delivery bags.
    • 2020 January 12, Kirk Broome, “Don’t let doorbell camera footage spark ‘search and destroy’ mission”, in The Greenville News, 145th year, number 327, page 2E:
      Without any verbalization in the video, it’s impossible to know if the person was staking out a possible heist or simply a lost “DoorDasher.”
    • 2022, Tom Altstiel, Jean Grow, Dan Augustine, Joanna Jenkins, Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy, and Design, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN:
      DoorDash, a crowdsourcing food-delivery service, fared moderately well during the pandemic, thanks in large part to the countless people who signed up to be DoorDashers.