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~
by DexRicon July 08, 2009
by gobbledygook May 17, 2008
by Atlantic City May 12, 2014
The term for a turn around shift in a non-nine to five job.
If you work the closing shift tonight and you have to work the opening shift the next morning, you are clopening.
If you work the closing shift tonight and you have to work the opening shift the next morning, you are clopening.
by katykangaroo March 24, 2009
by DrEdrection November 07, 2010
The act of having a closing shift at your workplace and then having an opening shift at your workplace the following day.
by Snuggleglarf January 25, 2012
by Steve Ibey May 13, 2007