back shift

noun

1. a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
2. the period worked

Example Sentences

The Emergency Room nurses who go back shift after shift.

From Slate

The muscles of his back shift beneath his T-shirt.

From Literature

"We can have some change in our clock - a couple of hours - but then on days off, it goes right back. Shift workers never adapt."

From BBC

And a cut back, shift inside, do-it-yourself goal to round it off.

From The Guardian

Cuckoo felt the little dog's back shift against her stretched-out toes, and suddenly a bitter flood of red ran over her thin, half-starved face, and she hid it in the tumbled pillow, pressing it down.

From Project Gutenberg