wage slave

 

 

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wage slave (plural wage slaves)

1. Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
   • 14 June 2012, Scott Tobias, "Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time", The A.V. Club

     Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck.

2. (informal) Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.

• slave to the wage
• (4chan, Internet slang) wagecuck, wagie

• wage-slave (verbal form)
• wage slavery
• slave wage