Usually means: Sit, stand, or move lazily.
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  1. slouch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slouch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slouch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slouch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slouch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slouch, slouch: Wordnik
  7. slouch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slouch: Wiktionary
  9. slouch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slouch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slouch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slouch: Dictionary.com
  13. slouch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slouch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slouch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. slouch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. slouch: Rhymezone
  18. Slouch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. slouch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. slouch: Free Dictionary
  21. slouch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. slouch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. slouch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. slouch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. slouch: Idioms

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  1. slouch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. slouch: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
▸ noun:  Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
▸ noun:  Someone who is slow to act.
▸ noun:  (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.

Similar:
slump, droop, limping, lumbering, loom, gloom, shambling, claudicant, deliquium, glum, more...

Opposite:
sit up straight, stand up straight, straighten up

Types:
hunchback, crouch, loll, lounge, lounge about, lollop, loll around, more...

Phrases:
slouch hat, slouch hats, be no slouch, to slouch or droop, no slouch, more...

Adjectives:
old, slight, careless, usual, easy, comfortable, black, casual, lazy, relaxed, habitual

Colors:
    olive,     taupe,     charcoal,     khaki,     rust,     mustard,     sage,     sepia,     ochre,     umber


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Similar:
slump, droop, limping, lumbering, loom, gloom, shambling, claudicant, deliquium, glum, more...

Opposite:
sit up straight, stand up straight, straighten up

Types:
hunchback, crouch, loll, lounge, lounge about, lollop, loll around, more...

Phrases:
slouch hat, slouch hats, be no slouch, to slouch or droop, no slouch, opposite of slouch, attractive slouch, more...

Adjectives:
old, slight, careless, usual, easy, comfortable, black, casual, lazy, relaxed, habitual

Colors:
    olive,     taupe,     charcoal,     khaki,     rust,     mustard,     sage,     sepia,     ochre,     umber



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