"deadline fighter" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deadline fighters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deadline fighter (plural deadline fighters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hong Kong English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146",
          "text": "The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to [...] draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who only begins work on a project, assignment, etc., right before the due date and time."
      ],
      "id": "en-deadline_fighter-en-noun-ez-VFpb~",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Hong Kong, colloquial) A person who only begins work on a project, assignment, etc., right before the due date and time."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "student syndrome"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hong-Kong",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deadline fighter"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deadline fighters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deadline fighter (plural deadline fighters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "student syndrome"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Hong Kong English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146",
          "text": "The poorer assignments were turned in by students (known locally as ‘deadline fighters’) who decided to [...] draft their final dictionary entries the night before the due date.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who only begins work on a project, assignment, etc., right before the due date and time."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Hong Kong, colloquial) A person who only begins work on a project, assignment, etc., right before the due date and time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hong-Kong",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deadline fighter"
}