deadline fighter

English

Noun

deadline fighter (plural deadline fighters)

1. (Hong Kong, colloquial) A person who only begins work on a project, assignment, etc., right before the due date and time.
   • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:

     The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to [...] draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.

See also

• student syndrome