guy Friday

noun

1. a man who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.

Example Sentences

Now here was a guy Friday on the Torrey Pines South Course, leading the whole magnificent field by two shots at one point before Bland bogeyed No. 8, the 17th hole he tried.

From Washington Post

“New music. Wedding music. @DanAndShay and this guy. FRIDAY,” the singer tweeted on Wednesday along with a promo video of pink flowers blooming in the desert.

From Fox News

When I wasn’t out working with Janice, I was the willing guy Friday.

From Literature

“She’s in good hands,” Destin Pfaff, her mohawked guy Friday, said, smiling at Ms. Stanger while speaking of her in the third person.

From New York Times

Among these characters moves gentle, sophisticated, thwarted Billy Litchfield, a kind of freelance Guy Friday to rich people, who is very nice but way too poor to actually live in One Fifth.

From Time Magazine Archive

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