slacker
IPA: sɫˈækɝ
noun
- One who procrastinates or is lazy.
- A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
- A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
- (dated, US) A person who seeks to avoid military service.
- (rare, slang) A user of the Slackware Linux distribution.
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Examples of "slacker" in Sentences
- At the time of the Civil War your grandpa was what we call a slacker in these days.
- Pilotshark says: so sissy pansy hillbilly slacker is mr duke your plain pansy persona?
- Then, it's gingerbread pancakes with the seemingly adorable self-described "dorky" apparently stereotypical Austin slacker woman.
- He dressed for the gig as always, in slacker's T-shirt and jeans; the polished loafers he wore in place of his customary sneakers were the lone hint of occasion.
- Slacking Off on Investing When it comes to investing, the so-called slacker generation has become downright timid -- and in big danger of falling further behind on its retirement savings.
- While the juxtaposition of law school with "slacker" is eye-catching, it's the second part of the book's title -- the part that comes after the colon -- that's a better description of Doria's book.
- The word slacker, recently come into good usage in the United States as a designation for a successful shirker of conscription, is a substantive derived from the English verb to slack, which was born as university slang and remains so to this day.
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