Usually means: Avoids work and responsibilities habitually.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. slacker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slacker: Merriam-Webster
  3. slacker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slacker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slacker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slacker: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slacker, slacker: Wordnik
  8. slacker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slacker: Wiktionary
  10. slacker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slacker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slacker: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slacker: Dictionary.com
  14. slacker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slacker (disambiguation), Slacker (film), Slacker (movie), Slacker (music service), Slacker (producer), Slacker, The Slacker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. slacker: Rhymezone
  17. slacker: FreeDictionary.org
  18. slacker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. slacker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slacker: Legal dictionary

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  1. slacker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slacker: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slacker: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slacker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See slackers as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  One who procrastinates or is lazy.
▸ noun:  A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
▸ noun:  A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
▸ noun:  (dated, US) A person who seeks to avoid military service.
▸ noun:  (rare, slang) A user of the Slackware Linux distribution.

Similar:
shirker, procrastinator, tomorrower, dallier, slumberer, slackliner, lazer, lounger, procrastinatrix, procrastibaker, more...

Opposite:
go-getter, workaholic, workhorse

Types:
layabout, lazybones, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, idler, sluggard, more...

Phrases:
Slacker rock, Slacker Cats, something a slacker lacks, fabled slacker, more...

Adjectives:
little, successful, young, real, old, lazy, single, such, incorrigible, total, inert

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Similar:
shirker, procrastinator, tomorrower, dallier, slumberer, slackliner, lazer, lounger, procrastinatrix, procrastibaker, more...

Opposite:
go-getter, workaholic, workhorse

Types:
layabout, lazybones, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, idler, sluggard, more...

Phrases:
Slacker rock, Slacker Cats, something a slacker lacks, fabled slacker, more...

Adjectives:
little, successful, young, real, old, lazy, single, such, incorrigible, total, inert

Colors:
    beige,     olive,     khaki,     gray,     mustard, more...



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