weekend warrior
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From weekend + warrior. First attested 1956.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]weekend warrior (plural weekend warriors)
- A part-time soldier, or reservist
- 1956, US Senate Subcommittee on Real Estate and Military Construction, Military Public Works Construction, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 290:
- At Anacostia, the training that is done to naval aviators who are in the Reserve Services, weekend warrior(s) as it were, and they come to Anacostia to get their refresher training.
- Such was the pace with which I, and many like me, the so called ‘weekend warriors’ or Territorial Army, were hoisted aboard the Gulf War battle wagon.
- (idiomatic) A person who indulges in a sport or pastime on an infrequent basis, usually on weekends when work commitments are not present.
- 2018, Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut, Picador UK Paperback edition 2018, p. 95:
- Whoever camped here was no weekend warrior neither because round the tanks I saw old kero tins with veggies growing in them.
- The most common foot-related injury I see for the weekend warrior is heel pain.
- 2018, Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut, Picador UK Paperback edition 2018, p. 95:
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “infrequent participant in sport or pastime”): lifestyler