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shirker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun shirker has 1 sense
- shirker(n = noun.person) slacker - a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime); Array has particulars: goldbrick, malingerer, shammer, skulker, scrimshanker
is a kind of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
Derived form verb shirk1
THESAURUS
shirker
bungler, clock watcher, disregarder, dodger, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, ignorer, malingerer, neglecter, negligent, old soldier, procrastinator, shirk, skulk, skulker, slacker, slinker, sloven, slut, soldier, spiv, tax dodger, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsherROGET THESAURUS
shirker
Avoidance
N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
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