Synonyms for slacker

Grammar : Noun

Spell : slak-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈslæk ər

Définition of slacker

Origin : popularized 1994, but the meaning "person who shirks work" dates to 1897; agent noun from slack (v.). In early use also slackster (1901). Cf. Old English sleacornes "laziness," which is not, however, an agent noun. Related: Slackerly; slackerish.

noun shirker

Example sentences :

The more intense his thinking, the slacker was the droop of his lower jaw.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

A slacker is a dirty dog who does what I wanna do but am afraid to do.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

Well, in any event, they would not call him a slacker or a coward.
Extract from : « Tom Slade with the Colors » by Percy K. Fitzhugh

And being a slacker consists in not doing the work which you ought to do.
Extract from : « Tom Slade with the Colors » by Percy K. Fitzhugh

She did not like to be called a slacker, particularly by Loveday.
Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil

Now an embusqu is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job.
Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke

I enjoyed that year thoroughly; I had ceased to be a slacker.
Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell

"They're gittin' married because every blamed one of 'em is a slacker," said Alf forcibly.
Extract from : « Anderson Crow, Detective » by George Barr McCutcheon

He who fails at such a time to be a crowd-man and our own sort of a crowd-man is a "slacker."
Extract from : « The Behavior of Crowds » by Everett Dean Martin

Too often the guilds gave protection to the slacker who managed to get by.
Extract from : « The Story of Mankind » by Hendrik Van Loon

Antonyms for slacker

hard worker

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