box checker

Meanings

1. A person who follows instructions to the letter and avoids taking any risks.
2. A person who strives to live up to the expectations of others; a person who follows the rules and strives to achieve the conventional definition of success.
3. One whose job consists primarily of administrative work indicating tasks that have been completed.
4. Someone who is counted in an organization as representing a minority ethnic group but who is so assimilated into the dominant culture that their ethnic status becomes meaningless.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see box, checker. Someone or something that checks boxes.

Etymology

From box + checker.