In retail closing shifts often end between 9 and
midnight and opening shifts start between 7 and 9 am. A clopen is a portmanteau of closing one night and then opening the next
morning, thus having as
little as eight hours to eat, sleep, and shower between shifts. Depending on the kind of retail and the hours involved, clopens can be a mild annoyance or a brutal test of human endurance.
I'd love to hang out
tomorrow night, but I'm clopening, so I won'
t get
home until midnight and then need to be up at six am~