oddjob

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English

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Noun

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oddjob (plural oddjobs)

  1. Alternative form of odd job
    • 2004, Anthony Burgess, M/F, →ISBN:
      This morning Lupo Sassone, the garbage collector and oddjob-man who lives next door, climbed out on to the parapet to make more acute the angle of the jut of the cicogna while the tramontana tore at him.

Verb

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oddjob (third-person singular simple present oddjobs, present participle oddjobbing, simple past and past participle oddjobbed)

  1. Alternative form of odd-job
    • 2014, John Lawton, Sweet Sunday, →ISBN:
      I had oddjobbed my way into a dead end in less than three years.