midnight runner
midnight runner · midnight runners
A teacher in Korea who leaves his/her job or the country without warning, typically to…A teacher in Korea who leaves his/her job or the country without warning, typically to escape abusive working conditions.
Meaning
1 sensesA teacher in Korea who leaves his/her job or the country without warning, typically to escape abusive working conditions.
Origin
May be connected to the British band Dexys Midnight RunnersMay be connected to the British band Dexys Midnight Runners
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Forms
plural: midnight runners| Singular | midnight runner |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedmidnight run
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.