noun a temporary job; a job with little or no future prospects. Characterised as the sort of work available at McDonald's™, the multinational fast food brand. A term coined and trademark-registered by McDonald's itself in 1983 as a positive expression of an affirmative hiring program aimed at those with disabilities; by the late 1980s a derisive term for the low-skill, low-wage jobs that were proliferating in the US during the presidency of Ronald Reagan US, 1991