A fork of Rural Dictionary
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~
In shift work in any job: Whenever you work the closing shift and then the next morning work the opening shift. Giving the employee an improper amount of time to refresh and feel rested between shifts.
Jake to Elizabeth: I'm feeling kind of sluggish this morning, worked another clopen!
When working, the act of, closing the store you work at and then opening the same store the next day.
Jessy: John do you want to go to the club after work. John: cant man i got to clopen
when, you close your work one day and the next you have to get up early and open. applies only if you have to stay past ten pm, and get up before 7 am the next day.
i have to stay til 11 tonight and i have to be here at five tommorow. it's the worst clopen schedual.