Definitions
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- noun derogatory
co-worker
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brad writes: If your cow-orker is glued to the computer grinding out source code 12 hours a day, he's not working smart.
Indian Labor Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If your cow-orker is glued to the computer grinding out source code 12 hours a day, he's not working smart.
Indian Labor Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My copy of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, to a cow-orker.
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I actually had a cow-orker that, for a time, tried to live without the state issued chit that said he existed.
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A cow-orker asked me today when I was going to make another one.
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I wuz just tawkin to a cow-orker abowt it yesturdai.
Stay on target… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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My pervy cow-orker Annalee "Techsploitation" Newitz's talk on How Sex Laws Incite Technological Change which covers "how sex laws have enlarged the demand for technologies that provide anonymous, instant, mobile gratification while also stoking content-providers 'desires for soft/hardware that can control access and quickly identify users by age and geographical location."
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005
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My cow-orker Seth has revised their copy with several counterexamples to show what a strange proposition this is:
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005
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My cow-orker Annalee Newitz has just published a white-paper on End User LIcense Agreements (EULAs) -- those long screens of legalese you don't ever read before clicking "I Agree."
- Boing Boing 2005
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My cow-orker Seth Schoen (the guy who wrote the DeCSS haiku) scored a bunch of old Betamax tapes and gave one to Annalee, who cornered Valenti and asked him to sign the tape.
repsac3 commented on the word cow-orker
First saw this as a running joke at the snopes.com Urban Legends yahoogroup (based on a typo there, as I recall the story, though a cite at cow orker says Dilbert writer Scott Adams coined the term). A contributer to the snopes list was also responsible for creating/getting the term glurge into the dictionary.
September 12, 2007