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slacker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun slacker has 1 sense
- slacker(n = noun.person) shirker - 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 slack1
THESAURUS
slacker
bungler, clock watcher, disregarder, dodger, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, ignorer, loafer, malingerer, neglecter, negligent, old soldier, procrastinator, shirk, shirker, skulk, skulker, slinker, sloven, slugabed, sluggard, slut, soldier, spiv, tax dodger, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsher
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