Definitions for slacker

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slacker slack·er

Spelling: [slak-er]

IPA: /ˈslæk ər/

Slacker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in slacker (aceklrs).

Definitions for slacker

noun

1. a person who evades his or her duty or work; shirker.
2. a person who evades military service.
3. an especially educated young person who is antimaterialistic, purposeless, apathetic, and usually works in a dead-end job.
4. a slack condition or part.
5. the part of a rope, sail, or the like, that hangs loose, without strain upon it.
6. a decrease in activity, as in business or work:
7. a period of decreased activity.
8. Geography. a cessation in a strong flow, as of a current at its turn.
9. a depression between hills, in a hillside, or in the land surface.
10. Prosody. (in sprung rhythm) the unaccented syllable or syllables.
11. British Dialect. a morass; marshy ground; a hollow or dell with soft, wet ground at the bottom.

Idioms

1. take up the slack, to pull in or make taut a loose section of a rope, line, wire, etc.: to provide or compensate for something that is missing or incomplete:

adverb

1. in a slack manner.

adjective

1. not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose:
2. negligent; careless; remiss:
3. slow, sluggish, or indolent:
4. not active or busy; dull; not brisk:
5. moving very slowly, as the tide, wind, or water.
6. weak; lax.
7. Nautical. easy (def 15a).

verb (used with object)

1. to be remiss in respect to (some matter, duty, right, etc.); shirk; leave undone:
2. to make or allow to become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.; relax (efforts, labor, speed, etc.); lessen; moderate (often followed by up).
3. to make loose, or less tense or taut, as a rope; loosen (often followed by off or out).
4. to slake (lime).

verb (used without object)

1. to be remiss; shirk one's duty or part.
2. to become less active, vigorous, rapid, etc. (often followed by up):
3. to become less tense or taut, as a rope; to ease off.
4. to become slaked, as lime.

Origin of slacker

1790-1800; slack¹ + -er¹; def. 3 popularized by the film Slackers (1991)

Examples for slacker

In the early days, “if you worked at home and you were a slacker, perhaps you got weeded out faster,” she said.

Though he's not Clooney, Knocked Up's Rogen isn't the slacker he's often made out to be.

Now an embusqu is a slacker who lies in the safe ambush of a soft job.

Nicole LaPorte on Pee-wee's first tweet, Diablo Cody's online ethics, and Oprah's slacker ways.

The more intense his thinking, the slacker was the droop of his lower jaw.

Despite his slacker credentials, Smith had never had a pot habit.

A slacker is a dirty dog who does what I wanna do but am afraid to do.

Well, in any event, they would not call him a slacker or a coward.

And being a slacker consists in not doing the work which you ought to do.

She did not like to be called a slacker, particularly by Loveday.