slacker

See also:släcker

English

Etymology

Fromslack+‎-er;compare especiallyslack off.

Pronunciation

• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈslækɚ/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-ækə(ɹ)

Noun

slacker(pluralslackers)

1. One whoprocrastinatesor islazy.
2. A personlackinga sense ofdirectioninlife;anunderachiever.
   • 2011May 28, Catherine Rampell, quoting Carl Van Horn, “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much”, inThe New York Times‎^[1],→ISSN:

     “I don’t think this is a generation ofslackers,”said Carl Van Horn, a labor economist at Rutgers. “This image of the kid who goes off and skis in Colorado, I don’t think that’s the correct image. Today’s young people are very focused on trying to work hard and to get ahead.”

3. A member of a certain 1990ssubcultureassociated withGeneration X.
   • 2005December 18, Craig Modderno, “Slacker Dot-Com”, inThe New York Times‎^[2],→ISSN:

     Kevin Smith wrote and directed theslackerhits “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy,” but lately it is his other life—maintaining six Web sites that he describes as “devoted to my fans and my films” —that seems to consume him.

   • 2010,Clay Shirky,Cognitive Surplus,page121:

     Gen Xers were said to be lazy— “slackers”in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.

4. (dated,US)A person who seeks to avoidmilitary service.
   • 1918September 10, “Take Slackers into Army”, inThe New York Times‎^[3],→ISSN:

     [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jerseyslackerraids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today[…]

   • 1943September 29, C. P. Trussell, “Wheeler Assails Bureau ‘Slackers’”, inThe New York Times‎^[4],→ISSN:

     Senator Burton K. Wheeler opened his fight in the Senate today[…],raising the cry of "slackers"against deferred workers in Government establishments and industry.

5. (rare,slang)A user of theSlackwareLinuxdistribution.
   • 1996August 15, stephen benson, “Re: How broken is Infomagic's Redhat linux?”, incomp.os.linux.setup‎^[5](Usenet):

     I'm aslackerfrom way back btw

   • 2002January 15, Josh, “Re: slackware installation issue”, incomp.os.linux‎^[6](Usenet):

     Hope you become a happyslacker.

   • 2007May 16, Dan C, “Re: Distro Poll, what do you use?”, inalt.os.linux‎^[7](Usenet):

     Any realSlackerwould know better than to top-post, AND post a bunch of HTML-crap to boot. You're not worthy.

Translations

procrastinating or lazy person

• Bulgarian:мързеливец(bg)m(mǎrzelivec)
• Catalan:gandul(ca)m
• Dutch:luiaard(nl)m
• Finnish:velttoilija,laiskimus(fi)
• French:paresseux(fr)m,feignasse(fr)f,tire-au-flanc(fr)m,glandeur(fr)m
• German:Faulpelz(de)m
• Hebrew:בַּטְלָן(he)m(batlán)
• Hindi:कामचोरm(kāmcor)
• Hungarian:lógós(hu)
• Ingrian:vetelys
• Macedonian:клошарm(klošar)(slang)
• Maori:inukorokoro,karioi,kaikora
• Polish:leń(pl)m
• Romanian:leneș(ro)m
• Russian:безде́льник(ru)m(bezdélʹnik),лентя́й(ru)m(lentjáj),ло́дырь(ru)m(lódyrʹ)
• Spanish:procrastinador(es),perezoso(es),holgazán(es),vago(es)m,huevón(es)m(Mexico)
• Swedish:latmask(sv)c,slöfock(sv)c

Anagrams

• Clarkes,calkers,lackers,rackles,recalks

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishslack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/sla.ke/

• Audio:

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Verb

slacker

1. (transitive,Quebec,colloquial)toslacken;toloosen
2. (intransitive,sports)toslackline

Conjugation

Conjugation ofslacker(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	slacker
	compound	avoir+ past participle
present participleorgerund1	simple	slackant /sla.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant+ past participle
past participle		slacké /sla.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	slacke /slak/	slackes /slak/	slacke /slak/	slackons /sla.kɔ̃/	slackez /sla.ke/	slackent /slak/
	imperfect	slackais /sla.kɛ/	slackais /sla.kɛ/	slackait /sla.kɛ/	slackions /sla.kjɔ̃/	slackiez /sla.kje/	slackaient /sla.kɛ/
	past historic2	slackai /sla.ke/	slackas /sla.ka/	slacka /sla.ka/	slackâmes /sla.kam/	slackâtes /sla.kat/	slackèrent /sla.kɛʁ/
	future	slackerai /sla.kʁe/	slackeras /sla.kʁa/	slackera /sla.kʁa/	slackerons /sla.kʁɔ̃/	slackerez /sla.kʁe/	slackeront /sla.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	slackerais /sla.kʁɛ/	slackerais /sla.kʁɛ/	slackerait /sla.kʁɛ/	slackerions /sla.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	slackeriez /sla.kə.ʁje/	slackeraient /sla.kʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative ofavoir+ past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative ofavoir+ past participle
	past anterior2	past historic ofavoir+ past participle
	future perfect	future ofavoir+ past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional ofavoir+ past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	slacke /slak/	slackes /slak/	slacke /slak/	slackions /sla.kjɔ̃/	slackiez /sla.kje/	slackent /slak/
	imperfect2	slackasse /sla.kas/	slackasses /sla.kas/	slackât /sla.ka/	slackassions /sla.ka.sjɔ̃/	slackassiez /sla.ka.sje/	slackassent /sla.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive ofavoir+ past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive ofavoir+ past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	slacke /slak/	—	slackons /sla.kɔ̃/	slackez /sla.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	—	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	—
1The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
2In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French,pp.77,78,79,81).