deadlineglazed

/ˈdɛdlaɪn ˈɡleɪzd/adjectiveVerified New

Also in: abgabglasig (Deutsch) · plazovidriado (Español) · échéanglacé (Français)

Describing the fixed, unblinking stare of a worker in the final twenty-four hours before a deadline.

The deadlineglazed are present, responsive, and entirely elsewhere; their eyes have adjusted to a world of only the task. Conversation reaches them without landing. The glaze clears exactly one hour after submission.

Etym. — deadline + glazed — the stare that the final day installs.

Rel. — deadlinepoet · urgentosis

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