slacker
noun
[ ˈslakə ]
• a person who avoids work or effort.
• "the slackers who let the side down by their want of team spirit"
Similar:
layabout,
idler,
shirker,
loafer,
malingerer,
work-dodger,
clock-watcher,
good-for-nothing,
sluggard,
slug,
laggard,
passenger,
lazybones,
slugabed,
couch potato,
cyberslacker,
skiver,
lead-swinger,
scrimshanker,
gold brick,
goof-off,
bludger,
fainéant,
slack
adjective
• not taut or held tightly in position; loose.
• "a slack rope"
Similar:
loose,
limp,
not taut,
not tight,
hanging,
flapping,
relaxed,
flexible,
pliant,
flaccid,
flabby,
sagging,
saggy,
drooping,
droopy,
soft,
baggy,
loose-fitting,
generously cut,
roomy,
shapeless,
sacklike,
oversized,
ill-fitting,
bagging,
• (of business or trade) characterized by a lack of work or activity; quiet.
• "business was rather slack"
• having or showing laziness or negligence.
• "slack accounting procedures"
Similar:
lax,
negligent,
neglectful,
remiss,
careless,
slapdash,
slipshod,
lackadaisical,
lazy,
inefficient,
incompetent,
inattentive,
offhand,
casual,
disorderly,
disorganized,
derelict,
sloppy,
slap-happy,
do-nothing,
asleep at the wheel,
delinquent,
otiose,
pococurante,
half-arsed,
half-assed,
• lewd.
• "the veteran king of slack chat"
• (of a tide) neither ebbing nor flowing.
• "soon the water will become slack, and the tide will turn"
Origin:
Old English slæc ‘inclined to be lazy, unhurried’, of Germanic origin; related to Latin laxus ‘loose’.
