Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.

  2. A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.

    Faulpelz

    безде́льникbezdélʹnik, лентя́йlentjáj, ло́дырьlódyrʹ

  3. A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.

  4. (US, dated)A person who seeks to avoid military service.

    a person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)

  5. (rare, slang)A user of the Slackware Linux distribution.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Only slackers fail if and only if the only unfair professors are on sabbatical.

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  2. You all really make a fine team of slackers!

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  3. They're all slackers.

    ruВсе они бездельники.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
procrastinating or lazy person:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
procrastinating or lazy person:

Origin

From slack + -er; compare especially slack off.

From slack + -er; compare especially slack off.

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Forms

plural: slackers
Singularslacker
Pluralslackers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime):shirker

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
slacker — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto