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Slacker

noun

A person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime). Synonym: shirker.

Slack

adjective

(compar. slacker; superl. slackest)

Not tense or taut. Synonym: loose. "Slack and wrinkled skin" , "Slack sails" , "A slack rope"

Flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide.

Lacking in rigor or strictness. Synonym: lax. "Lax in attending classes" , "Slack in maintaining discipline"

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"Slacker" Quotes from Famous Books

... following summer. At the same time, the discontent of the garrison had come to a head, and a mutiny had broken out because the extra working pay had not been forthcoming. After this the discipline became, not sterner, but slacker than ever, especially among the hireling Swiss. On February 8, 1745, within three months of the first siege, a memorandum was sent in to explain what was still required to finish the works begun twenty-five ...

— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood

... you will be able to centralize your thought and develop your brain power, and increase your mental energy, or you can be a slacker, a drifter, a quitter or a sleeper. It all depends on how you concentrate, or centralize your thoughts. Your thinking then becomes a fixed power and you do not waste time thinking about something that would not be good for you. You pick out the thoughts that ...

— The Power of Concentration • Theron Q. Dumont

... of February the vessels entered the Coldwater. Here the stream was wider and the current slacker, the trees rarely meeting overhead; but the channel was nearly as crooked, and accidents almost as frequent. Six days were consumed in advancing thirty miles through an almost unbroken wilderness. The stream widened and the country became more promising ...

— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan

... You wouldn't want him to sit at home and be a slacker, would you? And you wouldn't have a son of yours wait until the draft board took him by the ear and showed him his duty, ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... man regarded them closely, and could see that every single one of the natives was working at what he knew was their top speed, and without a single slacker. Even the barrow-men were moving almost at a jog-trot rather than the lazy saunter most natives used in an effort to do no more than they ...

— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans

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