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单词 slacker
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Definition of slacker in English:

slacker

nounˈslakəˈslækər
informal
  • 1A person who avoids work or effort.

    〈非正式〉逃避工作的人;偷懒的人

    the slackers who let the side down by their want of team spirit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In short, they are slackers - but, to their credit, slackers with jobs.
    • I hate how volleyball has the reputation of being a slacker sport.
    • Members of Generation X, born between 1963 and 1977, are not slackers.
    • Knowledge games can also challenge a slacker child.
    • Luke was a brilliant student despite the fact that he was a notorious slacker.
    • Which of your slacker friends can you get to vote this year?
    • For the most part they're the seekers, slackers, and free spirits who tend to avoid the straight life, such as it is, for as long as they can.
    • Contrary to the popular rumor that Generations X and Y are mostly slackers, these young people take action.
    • So if Stewart's audience is comprised of stoned slackers, how would Herzog describe O'Reilly's audience?
    • The hero, Shaun, an aimless slacker, has been recently dumped by his girlfriend and has to cope with his couch-surfing best friend.
    • Its variants include the skater dude, the stoner dude, the slacker dude, and the surfer-skater-stoner-slacker dude.
    • That's where I am now, actually, helping the idiotic slacker try to get his World History grade up.
    • Antoine is a layabout slacker who lives in a lounge at a health club where a friend lets him stay.
    • If I didn't have a kid, I could quit my job, move into a studio apartment somewhere, get a slacker job, and be just fine.
    • Austin's a slacker town, Linklater's from a slacker culture.
    • However, something terrible happened that prevented me from living my slacker dream.
    • I took this as a justification for my slacker life, quietly snickering at the achievers and believers.
    • I still have some last-minute wrapping to do, because I'm a slacker.
    • Well, I guess I always knew I was a slacker deep down in my heart.
    • An active slacker is better than a passive slacker.
    Synonyms
    layabout, idler, shirker, loafer, malingerer, work-dodger, clock-watcher, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard
    informal passenger, lazybones, slugabed, couch potato, cyberslacker
    British informal skiver, lead-swinger, scrimshanker
    North American informal gold brick, goof-off
    Australian/New Zealand informal bludger
    French archaic fainéant
    1. 1.1US A person who evades military service.
      〈美〉逃避兵役的人
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yes, we had slackers, draft dodgers and antiwar advocates, but they got short shrift, little attention and almost no press.
    2. 1.2North American A young person (especially in the 1990s) of a subculture characterized by apathy and aimlessness.
      〈主美〉(尤指20世纪90年代以冷漠、漫无目的为特征的亚文化群的)疲沓的年轻人
      they are portrayed as dreamy, disenfranchised slackers
      as modifier slacker culture
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Arita is one half of a slacker duo with Nimura, both of whom work at an industrial laundrette.
      • I'm sitting in a massive loft in a slacker neighbourhood where a lot of Montreal's vegetarians live.
      • His droning slacker voice and bizarre lyrics were present, but where were the interweaving guitars?
      • How do you feel about the slacker pothead stereotype?
      • Yeah, I just don't know how motivated they would be, these stoned slackers.
      • There are the notions of slacker culture, the Latin American ‘mañana’, and ‘Pacific time’.
      • No one can represent an entire generation - including hippies, slackers, and dotcom CEOs.
      • Additionally, the slacker angle was so very 1990s, so very played out at this point.
      • Despite their slacker stereotype, many members of Generation X have grown up to be useful and productive members of society.
      • Not based on the local artist of the same name, this is instead a fictionalized account of the breakdown of a Montreal slacker artist.
      • ‘Some people really didn't like Scumrock because it's a slacker film,’ says McIntosh.
      • They were a large part of slacker culture, and became poster boys for Generation X.
      • Because he needs help, McCaleb recruits his slacker neighbor, Buddy Noone to be his driver and gofer.
      • Donning my slacker duds, I visited a handful of galleries around New York.
      • Finally, we are shaking off the coma of the stillborn slacker 90s and now there is movement.
      • Loners is a drama that depicts the loosely connected lives of a group of 20-ish Czechs who seem to be caught in an early-'90s slacker angst.

Rhymes

alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka

Definition of slacker in US English:

slacker

nounˈslakərˈslækər
informal
  • 1A person who avoids work or effort.

    〈非正式〉逃避工作的人;偷懒的人

    the slackers who let the side down by their want of team spirit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So if Stewart's audience is comprised of stoned slackers, how would Herzog describe O'Reilly's audience?
    • Which of your slacker friends can you get to vote this year?
    • That's where I am now, actually, helping the idiotic slacker try to get his World History grade up.
    • I still have some last-minute wrapping to do, because I'm a slacker.
    • Antoine is a layabout slacker who lives in a lounge at a health club where a friend lets him stay.
    • Members of Generation X, born between 1963 and 1977, are not slackers.
    • For the most part they're the seekers, slackers, and free spirits who tend to avoid the straight life, such as it is, for as long as they can.
    • I hate how volleyball has the reputation of being a slacker sport.
    • I took this as a justification for my slacker life, quietly snickering at the achievers and believers.
    • Austin's a slacker town, Linklater's from a slacker culture.
    • Contrary to the popular rumor that Generations X and Y are mostly slackers, these young people take action.
    • Its variants include the skater dude, the stoner dude, the slacker dude, and the surfer-skater-stoner-slacker dude.
    • An active slacker is better than a passive slacker.
    • Knowledge games can also challenge a slacker child.
    • Well, I guess I always knew I was a slacker deep down in my heart.
    • However, something terrible happened that prevented me from living my slacker dream.
    • Luke was a brilliant student despite the fact that he was a notorious slacker.
    • The hero, Shaun, an aimless slacker, has been recently dumped by his girlfriend and has to cope with his couch-surfing best friend.
    • In short, they are slackers - but, to their credit, slackers with jobs.
    • If I didn't have a kid, I could quit my job, move into a studio apartment somewhere, get a slacker job, and be just fine.
    Synonyms
    layabout, idler, shirker, loafer, malingerer, work-dodger, clock-watcher, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard
    1. 1.1US A person who evades military service.
      〈美〉逃避兵役的人
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yes, we had slackers, draft dodgers and antiwar advocates, but they got short shrift, little attention and almost no press.
    2. 1.2North American A young person (especially in the 1990s) of a subculture characterized by apathy and aimlessness.
      〈主美〉(尤指20世纪90年代以冷漠、漫无目的为特征的亚文化群的)疲沓的年轻人
      they are portrayed as dreamy, disenfranchised slackers
      as modifier slacker culture
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Some people really didn't like Scumrock because it's a slacker film,’ says McIntosh.
      • How do you feel about the slacker pothead stereotype?
      • I'm sitting in a massive loft in a slacker neighbourhood where a lot of Montreal's vegetarians live.
      • There are the notions of slacker culture, the Latin American ‘mañana’, and ‘Pacific time’.
      • Loners is a drama that depicts the loosely connected lives of a group of 20-ish Czechs who seem to be caught in an early-'90s slacker angst.
      • Yeah, I just don't know how motivated they would be, these stoned slackers.
      • His droning slacker voice and bizarre lyrics were present, but where were the interweaving guitars?
      • Despite their slacker stereotype, many members of Generation X have grown up to be useful and productive members of society.
      • Not based on the local artist of the same name, this is instead a fictionalized account of the breakdown of a Montreal slacker artist.
      • No one can represent an entire generation - including hippies, slackers, and dotcom CEOs.
      • Finally, we are shaking off the coma of the stillborn slacker 90s and now there is movement.
      • They were a large part of slacker culture, and became poster boys for Generation X.
      • Additionally, the slacker angle was so very 1990s, so very played out at this point.
      • Arita is one half of a slacker duo with Nimura, both of whom work at an industrial laundrette.
      • Donning my slacker duds, I visited a handful of galleries around New York.
      • Because he needs help, McCaleb recruits his slacker neighbor, Buddy Noone to be his driver and gofer.
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