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slacker

Pronunciation: /ˈslakə/
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Definition of slacker

noun

informal
  • a person who avoids work or effort: the slackers who let the side down by their want of team spirit
  • US a person who evades military service.
  • chiefly North American a young person (especially in the 1990s) of a subculture characterized by apathy and aimlessness: they are portrayed as dreamy, disenfranchised slackers [as modifier]:slacker culture

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