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slack·er    Audio Help   [slak-er] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who evades his or her duty or work; shirker.
2.a person who evades military service.
3.an esp. educated young person who is antimaterialistic, purposeless, apathetic, and usually works in a dead-end job.
[Origin: 1790–1800; slack1 + -er1; def. 3 popularized by the film Slackers (1991)]

—Synonyms 1. malingerer, dodger, laggard.
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slack 1    Audio Help   (slāk)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   slack·er, slack·est
  1. Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace.
  2. Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business.
  3. Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. See Synonyms at loose.
  4. Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip.
  5. Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. See Synonyms at negligent.
  6. Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds.
  7. Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.

v.   slacked, slack·ing, slacks

v.   tr.
  1. To make slower or looser; slacken.
  2. To be careless or remiss in doing: slack one's duty.
  3. To slake (lime).

v.   intr.
  1. To be or become slack.
  2. To evade work; shirk.

n.  
  1. A loose part, as of a rope or sail.
  2. A lack of tension; looseness.
  3. A period of little activity; a lull.
    1. A cessation of movement in a current of air or water.
    2. An area of still water.
  5. Unused capacity: still some slack in the economy.
  6. slacks Casual trousers that are not part of a suit.

adv.   In a slack manner: a banner hanging slack.

Phrasal Verb(s):
slack off
To decrease in activity or intensity.

Idiom(s):
cut/give (someone) some slack
Slang To make an allowance for (someone), as in allowing more time to finish something.

[Middle English slak, from Old English slæc; see slēg- in Indo-European roots.]

slack'ly adv., slack'ness n.
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slack·er    Audio Help   (slāk'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who shirks work or responsibility: "In terms of their outlook on the future, slackers regard tomorrow with a studied cynicism or . . . don't even conceive of one" (Julie Caniglia).
  2. One who tries to evade military service in wartime; a draft dodger.

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slacker

noun
a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

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