slacker
See also: släcker
English
Etymology
From slack + -er; compare especially slack off.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ækə(r)
Noun
slacker (plural slackers)
- One who procrastinates or is lazy.
- A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
- 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.
- 1918 September 10, New York Times, "Take Slackers into Army",
- (very rare) A user of the Slackware Linux operating system.
- 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.
- 1996 August 15, stephen benson, "Re: How broken is Infomagic's Redhat linux?", comp.os.linux.setup, Usenet,
- A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
Translations
procrastinating or lazy person
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