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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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of graveyard shift1
Example Sentences
Long-time evening anchor Wolf Blitzer was also asked to move to the mornings and, in a certain light, Acosta's potential bump to the graveyard shift can be seen as an accommodation of that.
He was working the graveyard shift at Harvey Aluminum in Torrance when the melody came to him.
She and her fiance work the graveyard shift at Amazon, but they went two weeks without pay after the fire displaced them, and have been jumping from motel to motel.
He was working graveyard shifts in hospitality while trying to find acting work, and was rejected when he first auditioned for Hamilton.
The company cancelled the graveyard shift and evacuated most staff out of an “abundance of caution.”
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