Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

midnight run

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

Syllables: mid-night run
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An unannounced departure from a teaching job at a school in Korea (or rarely elsewhere), in which a teacher leaves the job or country without warning, typically to escape abusive working conditions.

Example Sentences

"[…] the likelihood of them […] doing a midnight run to the airport in the dead of night after that first paycheck."
"In frustration, teachers do the midnight run and managers go mad, yelling, screaming , and ripping the teachers off […]"
"[interviewee] Do I need to midnight run? Do I need to leave, tell no-one, and speak of it nowhere? […] [comment by tleafs3638] Very recently midnight ran myself, after typical hagwon treatment to foreigners, as well as seeing a 13 year old commit suicide via jumping from their hagwon on the tenth floor. […] [comment by MrWadewynn] midnight runs are pretty damn funny. I have been a coworker of several midnight runners, and the aftermath is pretty hilarious watching the owners scramble to figure out why it happened... again lol."

Inflected Forms

midnight runs (plural)

Phrases

midnight runner

Frequently Paired Words

midnight runner

Questions

What does midnight run mean?: An unannounced departure from a teaching job at a school in Korea (or rarely elsewhere), in which a teacher leaves the job or country without warning, typically to escape abusive working conditions.

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