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slouch

[slouch]
–verb (used without object)
1. to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
2. to move or walk with loosely drooping body and careless gait.
3. to have a droop or downward bend, as a hat.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cause to droop or bend down, as the shoulders or a hat.
–noun
5. a drooping or bending forward of the head and shoulders; an awkward, drooping posture or carriage.
6. an awkward, clumsy, or slovenly person.
7. slouch hat.
8. a lazy, inept, or inefficient person.

Origin:
1505–15; orig. uncert.


sloucher, noun
slouch⋅ing⋅ly, adverb


8. laggard, loafer, sluggard.
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slouch   (slouch)   
v.   slouched, slouch·ing, slouch·es

v.   intr.
  1. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture.

  2. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.

v.   tr.
To cause to droop; stoop.
n.  
  1. An awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture or gait.

  2. Slang An awkward, lazy, or inept person: good at chess and no slouch at bridge, either.


[Origin unknown.]
slouch'er n., slouch'i·ly adv., slouch'i·ness n., slouch'y adj.
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Word Origin & History

slouch 
1515, "lazy man," variant of slouk (1570), perhaps from O.N. slokr "lazy fellow," and related to slack on the notion of "sagging, drooping." Meaning "stooping of the head and shoulders" first recorded 1725. The verb meaning "walk with a slouch" is from 1754. Slouch hat first attested 1837.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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