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slacker
[ slak-er ]
noun
- a person who evades their duty or work; shirker.
Synonyms: malingerer, laggard, dodger
- an especially educated young person who is antimaterialistic, purposeless, apathetic, and usually works in a dead-end job.
- a person who evades military service.
slacker
/ ˈslækə /
noun
- a person who evades work or duty; shirker
- informal.
- an educated young adult characterized by cynicism and apathy
- ( as modifier )
slacker culture
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slacker1
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Example Sentences
In the early days, “if you worked at home and you were a slacker, perhaps you got weeded out faster,” she said.
The network excoriates its fired anchor by painting him as an arrogant and uncooperative slacker.
Despite his slacker credentials, Smith had never had a pot habit.
Though he's not Clooney, Knocked Up's Rogen isn't the slacker he's often made out to be.
Nicole LaPorte on Pee-wee's first tweet, Diablo Cody's online ethics, and Oprah's slacker ways.
It was slacker water above the rapid; and all afternoon they slid slowly up on deep, winding reaches of the still, green river.
I don't say the fellow's vicious, but he's an extravagant slacker and a fool, which is perhaps as bad.
Well, in any event, they would not call him a slacker or a coward.
And being a slacker consists in not doing the work which you ought to do.
If a girl has a flower bed where she might grow tomatoes, and she grows roses there instead, you might call her a slacker.
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