Slacker meaning

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slackers
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The definition of a slacker is an unmotivated person who doesn't work very hard or who doesn't have a lot of ambition.

A guy who sits around on the couch all day and does nothing productive is an example of a slacker.

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One who shirks work or responsibility.
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A person who shirks work or duty.
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A person who evades military service in wartime.
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A young person, typically in his or her twenties, variously regarded as idle, lazy, unambitious, etc.
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One who procrastinates or is lazy.
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A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
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A person who seeks to avoid military service.
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(very rare) A user of the Slackware Linux operating system.
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A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
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One who tries to evade military service in wartime; a draft dodger.
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Origin of slacker

  • From slack +"Ž -er; compare especially slack off.

    From Wiktionary

Slacker Sentence Examples

  • Gyllenhaal is excellent as Justine's angst-ridden younger beau, while Reilly plays her slacker spouse to perfection.

  • You can feel these points as the rope going slacker.

  • Was he really just a " lazy slacker " who ought to " buck up "?

  • He complained that he had been portrayed as a " professional slacker " and being habitually concerned with supplying counterfeit goods at work.

  • In Nonfiction, a hack documentary filmmaker abuses the trust of a high school slacker and his family.

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