slacker

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ækə(r)

Noun

Wikipedia slacker (plural slackers)

1. One who procrastinates or is lazy; compare slack off.
2. A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
3. A person who seeks to avoid military service.
   • 1918 September 10, New York Times, "Take Slackers into Army",

     [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today...

   • 1943 September 29, New York Times, "Wheeler assails Bureau 'Slackers'",

     Senator Burton K. Wheeler opened his fight in the Senate today..., raising the cry of "slackers" against deferred workers in Government establishments and industry.

4. A user of Slackware Linux, a type of application software.
   • 1996 August 15, stephen benson, "Re: How broken is Infomagic's Redhat linux?", comp.os.linux.setup, Usenet,

     I'm a slacker from way back btw

   • 2002 January 15, Josh, "Re: slackware installation issue", comp.os.linux, Usenet,

     Hope you become a happy slacker.

   • 2007 May 16, Dan C, "Re: Distro Poll, what do you use?", alt.os.linux, Usenet,

     Any real Slacker would know better than to top-post, AND post a bunch of HTML-crap to boot. You're not worthy.

Translations

procrastinating or lazy person

Finnish: velttoilija (fi), laiskimus (fi) French: paresseux (fr) m., feignasse (fr) f.

Hindi: कामचोर (hi) (kāmcor) m. Russian: бездельник (ru) (bezdél'nik) m., лентяй (ru) (lentjáj) m.

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