slacker

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Recent Examples of slacker These are not bored slackers experimenting for fun. Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Beavis and Butt-Head season 3 The iconic ’90s slackers are back. Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 Armored truck driver Russell (Murphy) is nearing retirement and is on a cash pickup job with young slacker Travis (Davidson) when the latter gets snookered by a criminal (Keke Palmer) into a high-stakes robbery situation. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025 Pan excels at making the reader care about Cueball and Eddy, who start out as naive, harmless slackers. Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slacker
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Noun
  • Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Rich earth tones lean into the season’s palette, while hobo shapes and mini shoulder bags feel especially of-the-moment.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Slacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slacker. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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