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Definition: Slacker |
SlackerNoun1. A person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slacker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A yarding machine with a slacking skyline. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term slacker, in contemporary western culture, applies generally to high school, college, and young people who underachieve at school or work. To other people, it appears that slackers don't do very much actual work, schoolwork, or much of anything. The term is usually associated with grungy MTV-watching Generation X types with their dismissive sayings such as "Whatever" and "Never mind".To slackers, educational institutions such as high schools and colleges do not adequately prepare young people for the Real World, so why bother making an effort to get good grades?
Slacker is the name of a 1991 film written and directed by Richard Linklater, which popularized this word in the 1990s in its Gen-X sense.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slacker."
Synonym: SlackerSynonym: shirker (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: slackest (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering). |
Crosswords: Slacker |
| Specialty definitions using "slacker": cockled selvedge ♦ slack selvedge. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean, it's note like you're a slacker type, but -- Oh, oh (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Clever | Go the extra mile--It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mrs. Slacker (1918) The Slacker (1917) Mr. Slacker (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Help us make it hot for the Kaiser--Buy your stamps here now and see the thermometer go up--War Savings Stamps issued by the United States Government An idle quarter is a slacker quarter--Invest in Thrift Stamps now and save some lad's life in no man's la. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Slacker" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Slacker" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (comparative) | 78.95% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slacker | 85 |
half marathon slacker | 24 |
b b graham slacker | 21 |
lyrics n9ne slacker tech | 5 |
lyrics slacker | 4 |
golf mini slacker | 3 |
slacker movie | 3 |
html slacker | 3 |
quest slacker | 2 |
fhmus.com image miniputt.swf reporter slacker | 2 |
n9ne slacker tech | 2 |
comic slacker | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "slacker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përtac (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, good for nothing, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slothful, sluggard, snail, sundowner, swabber, truant, twiddler), dembel (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, drone, faineant, floppy, idle, Idler, lazy, lazybones, lazy-boots, lotus eater, sluggard, work-shy), bishtnues (elusive, evasive, shirker). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتكاسل (idler), المتهرب من عمل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръшкач (quitter, shirk, shirker, skulk, soldier, truant, wag), мързеливец, лентяй (bummer, chairwarmer, faineant, lay about, rounder, spiv). (various references) | |
Chinese | "较自"散漫. (various references) | |
Czech | ulejvák (dodger, shirk, skiver, truant), flákaè (drifter, Idler, lollard, slob, spiv). (various references) | |
Danish | slacker. (various references) | |
Dutch | slacker. (various references) | |
Farsi | فراری ازخدمت نظام , کسی که ازانجام وظیفه شانه تهی کند, سست کننده , ادم سست وبی حال , دریچه (Choke, Closure, Hatch, Lid, Porthole, Scuttle, Valve, Vent, Wicket, Window). (various references) | |
Finnish | vetelehtijä (layabout, loafer). (various references) | |
French | slacker, tire au flanc, flemmard (slob), fainéant. (various references) | |
German | Drückeberger (blue funk, Conchy, coward, hedger, quitter, quitters, shirker, shirkers, skiver, slackers). (various references) | |
Greek | παραμελών το καθήκον του (undutiful), φυγόστρατοσ, τεμπέλησ (dawdler, lazy, lazybones, loafer, poke, shote, sluggard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משתמט (dodger, malingerer, shirker, truant), שתמטן (dodger, evader, malingerer, shirker), עצלן (lazy, lazybones, sloth, sluggard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lógós (bum, hanger-on, malingerer, moss-back, quitter, shirker, skiver, skulk, work-shy), lazsáló. (various references) | |
Italian | slacker, scansafatiche (hedger, Idler, loafer, shirker), fannullone (drone, Idler, lounger). (various references) | |
Korean | " 한산한. (various references) | |
Manx | laggeyder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackerslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | preguiçoso (chair warmer, dawdler, laggard, lazy, lazy guy, lie-a-bed, loafer, loller, lubberly, otiose, remiss, slack, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, work-shy), indivíduo indolente, cabo-grua de tensão baixa/variável. (various references) | |
Romanian | tembel (nut, slothful, sluggard, sluggish), putoare (niff, stench, stink), pierde-varã (dangler, do nothing, fribble, gadabout, Idler, loafer, loiterer, lounger, ne'er do well, waster), codaş (backward), chiulangiu (truant). (various references) | |
Russian | лодырь (bum, bummer, dawdler, duffer, lazybones, moocher, poke), лентяй (bummer, do-nothing, faineant, lazybones, lazy-bones, poke, slob, slug, slug-abed, sluggard, truant, wag, work-shy), прогульщик (hooky, quitter, shirker, truant, wag), дезертир (defector, deserter, duck out, rat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabušant (malingerer, passenger, quitter, shirker, truant). (various references) | |
Spanish | vago (bone-idle, erratic, faint, idle, Idler, lazybones, loiterer, loose, nameless, shadowy, sketchy, slouch, sloven, tramp, truant, twilight, vacant, vague), rácano (lead, truant), gandul (dodger, idle, Idler, lazy, loiterer, shirker, slob, spiv, truant), cable flojo. (various references) | |
Swedish | slöfock (drone, dullard, slouch, slowcoach, slowpoke, sluggard, vegetable), trögmåns (dodo, sluggard), latmask (dawdler, layabout, lazy dog, lazybones, sluggard), kabelkran (cable-crane, skyline crane). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้หลบเลี่ยง. (various references) | |
Turkish | uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slothful, slouch, slug, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), miskin (lazy, shiftless, sleepy, slothful, slowcoach, sluggard, sluggish, squalid). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ледащо (dawdle, dawdler, fribble, gadabout, layabout, lazybones, ne'er do well, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, slob, truant). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người lười biếng (do-naught, do-nothing, slug-abed), người chểnh mảnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slacker": slackers. (additional references) | |
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"Slacker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lacker, Salkever, slaker, slenker, slicka, slucker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slacker" (pronounced sla"ker) |
| 4 | -l a" k er | blacker, lacquer. |
| 3 | -a" k er | attacker, backer, cracker, hacker, makar, packer, racker, Stacker, tacker, tracker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: calkers, lackers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: calker, carles, clears, clerks, crakes, creaks, lacers, lacker, lakers, rackle, sacker, scaler, sclera, screak, slaker. | |
-2 letters: acres, alecs, arles, asker, cakes, calks, cares, carks, carle, carls, carse, clear, clerk, crake, creak, earls, escar, eskar, kales, lacer, laces, lacks, laker, lakes, lares, larks, laser, leaks, lears, races, racks, rakes, rales, reals, recks, saker. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: cacklers, caulkers, clackers, crackles, crankles, earlocks, grackles, hacklers, shackler, slackers, tacklers. | |
+2 letters: cracknels, laceworks, laverocks, mackerels, retackles, shacklers, trackless. | |
+3 letters: backlasher, backslider, blackeners, blockaders, cornflakes, crackliest, dreadlocks, flackeries, kiloparsec, lackluster, parbuckles, ramshackle, salesclerk, saucerlike, silverback, superflack, workplaces. | |
+4 letters: backlashers, backslapper, backsliders, blackhearts, blacklister, blackwaters, bricklayers, cakewalkers, hammerlocks, kiloparsecs, lacklusters, linebackers, lumberjacks, quacksalver, racewalkers, rickettsial, salesclerks, silverbacks, sockdolager, spacewalker, superflacks, tracklayers, turtlebacks. | |
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