(slang) a person characterized by much
industry; a person eager to do
work or extra
work.
(slang) a person who is always eager to
work or do anything extra, perhaps to
win the favor of his
leader or boss.
(US informal) like or as a person working very
hard at a
task, especially in
order to surpass his fellows.
n. a person who is eager to do something or is energetic in offering
help,
service,
advice, etc. This
phrase can also be used derisively to
refer to a person who is overly or excessively zealous, diligent or industrious. Beavers are small animals with
sharp pointed front teeth that enable them to build dams (blockages of moving water often several hundred feet in length that
create ponds where they live) and lodges (
house-like structures with underwater entrances). Beavers build these with great speed and
skill, using
mud, sticks,
poles, etc. The
term eager
beaver is probably an allusion to the industriousness of these animals.
(US informal) like or as a person working very
hard at a
task, especially in
order to surpass his fellows. But some
auditor can get so eager
beaver with his
series - which is
flatten the
process, see - that he forgets why he is
flattening the
process.
-Comm Cycles in Auditing (25 July 63) (slang) a person characterized by much
industry; a person eager to do
work or extra
work. Every eager
beaver that's making a little more
motion than anybody else, being a little more
critical, he instantly is going to get
shot in any
organization that isn't staticized.
(US informal) like or as a person working very
hard at a
task, especially in
order to surpass his fellows. And a bunch of these
birds get pretty eager
beaver, and they start to do it themselves.