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slacker
- /ˈslækɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ækə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From slack + -er; compare especially slack off.
noun slackers
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One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.
Some evil fellows said behind his back that Beowulf was white-livered and a slacker.
Similar: idler
- A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever. You're a slacker, McFly. You've got aptitude, but you don't apply yourself. You remind me of your father: He was a slacker, too.
- A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X. Kevin Smith wrote and directed the slacker hits “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy,” but lately it is his other life—maintaining six Web sites that he describes as “devoted to my fans and my films”—that seems to consume him.
- A person who seeks to avoid military service. [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today[…]
- A user of the Slackware Linux distribution. I'm a slacker from way back btw
adjective
- Comparative form of slack: more slack. Trains normally pass at Bricket Wood, except at the slacker times of the day and on Sundays, when only one unit is in operation.
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