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Definition of Slacker
1. Noun. A person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime).
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Specialized synonyms: Goldbrick, Malingerer, Shammer, Skulker, Scrimshanker
Generic synonyms: Bum, Do-nothing, Idler, Layabout, Loafer
Derivative terms: Shirk, Slack
Definition of Slacker
1. Noun. One who procrastinates or is lazy; compare ''slack off''. ¹
2. Noun. A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever. ¹
3. Noun. A person who seeks to avoid military service. ¹
4. Noun. A user of Slackware Linux, a type of application software. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slacker
1. a shirker [n -S] - See also: shirker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slacker
Literary usage of Slacker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Web by Emerson Hough (1919)
"CHAPTER XI THE slacker RAIDS How the APL Made Patriots — Chasing the slacker —
Teaching the Love of the Flag — Incidents of Western Raids. ..."
2. The Web by Emerson Hough (1919)
"CHAPTER XI THE slacker ... How the APL Made Patriots — Chasing the slacker —
Teaching the Love of the Flag ..."
3. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"... slacker, SOLDIER, HERO Told by Fred B. Pitney, War Correspondent I—"I MET HIM
IN THE TRENCHES ON THE SOMME" THIS is the story of Leon ..."
4. The Black Devils and Other Poems by Sterling M. Means (1919)
"THE slacker.* We have a slacker in our town, He is always on his beat; You will
often find him somewhere round, The corner of ..."
5. Patriotism and the Christian Life by Wilfrid A. Rowell (1918)
"IV THE PERIL OF THE slacker The vigorous enforcement of the Selective Service
Law for providing soldiers for the army has brought the slacker into striking ..."
6. Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits by Ella Sterling Mighels (1918)
"... A slacker A corporal gave me instruction; Clear of eye, a clean-cut chin, Face
firm set; yet boyish, young— Shoulders square and stomach in. ..."
7. Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits by Ella Sterling Mighels (1918)
"DREAM OF A slacker A corporal gave me instruction; Clear of eye, a clean-cut
chin, Shoulders square and stomach in. Face firm set; yet boyish, ..."
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