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noun

ˈslau̇ch How to pronounce slouch (audio)
Definition of slouchnext
as in slug
a lazy person is no slouch when it comes to cooking

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slouch

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verb

as in to drag
to move slowly slouched towards the church as if going to his own funeral

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Recent Examples of slouch
Noun
The 29-year-old was no slouch either, racking up 22 goals and 17 assists in 44 games across the Bundesliga and Champions League. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The rest of the range is no slouch in the endurance department, either. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
The mother laughed, which made the girl slouched sullenly on her Icelandic glance back, and her mother brushed a hand over her face. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 Certain chairs can cause slouching overtime if not intended for work use, resulting in harming your body in the process. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for slouch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slouch
  1. slug
  2. drag
  3. bum
  4. crawl
  5. drone
  6. creep
  7. snail
  8. shuffle
Noun
  • The live-by-the-slug, die-by-the-slug Dodgers have hit zero home runs in the NLCS.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • These beneficial predators spend the winter under leaves, emerging in spring to feed on common garden pests such as aphids, slugs and mites.
    — Manjot Kaur Sidhu, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of slug
Verb
  • Supporters — business groups and affordable housing advocates — say CEQA lawsuits drag projects out for years, jacking up your rent and mortgage.
    — Kiara Adams, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Related Stories The allegation relates to an incident in which Brand allegedly grabbed the woman by the arm and tried to drag her into a toilet.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of drag
Noun
  • Zellers poured the foundation, and Morrison hired fellow ski bums to do the framing, masonry, and tiling.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Carl Sandburg’s 1927 American Songbag featured a whole section of hobo songs presenting the bum as a beau ideal.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of bum
Verb
  • On thinner material, that gives you a fighting chance at keeping heat and warpage under control without crawling along at a miserable pace.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The bystander told the woman to get down on the floor before crawling into the home beneath the heaviest heat and dragging her to safety, according to the fire department.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of crawl
Noun
  • After a drone lands, the CLARKE system can analyze images without an internet connection, and teams can then send compact reports detailing building damage and road conditions, rather than huge image files.
    — Zoë Schiffer, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The Associated Press was granted exclusive access to the drone earlier this month, ahead of the final stage of testing.
    — DEREK GATOPOULOS, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of drone
Verb
  • By spring, with the opportunity fading for a mass relocation of homes and businesses, optimism crept back into public discourse.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Trees wrap around buildings, roots sprout from riverbeds of plastic trash, and vines creep down the street.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of creep
Noun
  • The serum has a lightweight, salmon-pink gel texture that goes on clear, with a slightly slippery consistency that reminds me of snail mucin.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Holed up in her brutalist home in the Swiss alps with her pet snails, she is approached by a handsome young publisher from New York (Alden Ehrenreich) with the impossible task of convincing her to write another book in her Ripley series.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of snail
Verb
  • It’s been more than a year since Ozzy Osbourne shuffled off this mortal coil.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The Current traded away some assets while shuffling stars like Michelle Cooper, Temwa Chawinga and Lorena in and out of the lineup.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffle

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“Slouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slouch. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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