CLOCK-WATCHERS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

clock-watchers

noun

plural of clock-watcher

as in shirkers

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Noun

Each, in their way, is ambitious — no room for slackers here!

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Presumably, future episodes will continue to offer various one-off installments set in the show’s original status quo, when Mordecai and Rigby were just young slackers trying to avoid work.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 May 2026

Definition of slackers

Noun

On the streets below, vendors are hawking bootleg merchandise as stragglers from the festivities color the sidewalks with blue-and-orange jerseys and hats.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026
Saldaña, too, was at the party until the final stragglers began to head home.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 30 July 2026

Definition of stragglers

Noun

Instead, the problem is that these slowpokes haven’t been nearly as efficient.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Much of the drama is undermined by the odd choice to have the characters explain exactly what is happening (presumably for the slowpokes in the back).

— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026

Definition of slowpokes

Noun

McKinsey has found that companies leading in customer experience achieve more than twice the revenue growth of customer experience laggards.

— Jessica Wong, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
The energy sector and logistics companies that rely on fuel are likely to be the biggest laggards.

— Alex Harring,Sarah Min, CNBC, 21 July 2026

Definition of laggards

Noun

Chicks, in particular, eat large quantities of high-protein insect larvae, beetles, flies, snails, spiders and ants.

— Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
The slime is highly valued as an anti-inflammatory and anti-aging ingredient in certain skin care products, and snails can secrete different kinds of mucus with properties tailored to specific functions.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of snails

Noun

Everyone took the Meta keyword tag seriously and the practice of utilizing ‘white text on a white background’ to hide hidden keywords was a legitimate tactic that webmasters would use to include keywords in their website for search engine crawlers.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
The website security provider helps companies protect against AI crawlers.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of crawlers

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