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slack·er

(slăk′ər)

1. One who shirks work or responsibility.

2. One who tries to evade military service in wartime; a draft dodger.

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slacker

(ˈslækə)

1. a person who evades work or duty; shirker

2. informal

a. an educated young adult characterized by cynicism and apathy

b. (as modifier): slacker culture.

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slack•er

(ˈslæk ər)

n.

1. a person who evades duty or work; shirker.

2. a person who evades military service; dodger.

3. an esp. educated young person who is scornful of materialism, purposeless, apathetic, and usu. works in a dead-end job.

[1790–1800; definition 3 popularized by Slackers (1991), film by R. Linklater]

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Noun

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

shirker

armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

goldbrick - a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort

do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum"

malingerer, shammer, skulker - someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

scrimshanker - a shirker

slacker

noun layabout, shirker, loafer, skiver (Brit. slang), idler, passenger, do-nothing, piker (Austral. & N.Z. slang), dodger, good-for-nothing, bludger (Austral. & N.Z. informal), gold brick (U.S. slang), scrimshanker (Brit. military slang) He's not a slacker, he's the best worker they've got.

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slacker

[ˈslækəʳ] N → holgazán/ana m/f, vago/a m/f, gandul(a) m/f

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The more intense his thinking, the slacker was the droop of his lower jaw.

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He had no sooner given his father these raisins but I saw him come out of the boat, and run away as if he had been bewitched, for he was the swiftest fellow on his feet that ever I saw: I say, he ran at such a rate that he was out of sight, as it were, in an instant; and though I called, and hallooed out too after him, it was all one - away he went; and in a quarter of an hour I saw him come back again, though not so fast as he went; and as he came nearer I found his pace slacker, because he had something in his hand.

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