deadliner

noun

deadliner

noun

Etymology From deadline + -er.

1

A person who works up until the deadline.

I was ahead of my deadline so I watched "Flatliners," about some serious deadliners with a headliner complex.1995, Andrei Codrescu, Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio, page 28:

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