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
- 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
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