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it's a self-concious state that you put yourself in when time is closing in on something special
people have "short timer syndrome" the day before they take a long awaited vacation
by accomplished female December 18, 2011
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The inability to care about your job or that of your co-workers when your departure from your place of employment is imminent. Symptoms include some or all of the following: coming in late; making excuses to leave early; an ever-lengthening lunch hour; cleaning your desk weeks or even months in advance of said departure; treating co-workers like crap because you are leaving and they are staying; telling everyone and anyone who does or does not care about the details or the new job.
Man does Steve has a bad case of Short Timers Disease.
Short time, Short Timer
by Fernshouse June 6, 2016
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Book by Gustav Hasford describing his experiences in the Vietnam War.

Later made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, starring Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey and others.
The Short Timers is the book that the movie Full Metal Jacket is based on.
by EveryMnwe October 23, 2007
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When a person gets promoted and has to stay in their current position for a week or two.
Mike's got Short Timers man! He took vacation for the last 4 days in his current position!
by me February 24, 2006
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