- 1懶鬼；混日子、摸魚的人（帶責備）
A slacker is a person who does not do the work they should. The word is not kind: it says this person is lazy on purpose, or at least not trying. A boss might call someone a slacker; a student might use it for the who never helps with group work. Though actually, among friends it can be a little lighter — almost teasing — but it still points at the same thing: you are leaving the hard part to other people. It is informal. The close phrase is slack off, which means to work less hard, or to stop trying for a while. A slacker is the person who does that as a habit. In the 1990s, some people in the US also used slacker for a young adult who did not want the usual job-and-success path; that use is more about a time and a style of life, and it is less common now. The everyday feeling is still: this person is not doing their share.
組成slack (loose; also 'not working hard') + -er (a person who does that). Closely tied to the phrasal verb slack off.
同家族的字
- slackthe base: loose, or not working hard
- slack offthe verb: to stop trying, or work less hard
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
slackernoun/ˈslækɚ/
- 1
One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.
- Some evil fellows said behind his back that Beowulf was white-livered and a slacker.
- 2
A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
- You're a slacker, McFly. You've got aptitude, but you don't apply yourself. You remind me of your father: He was a slacker, too.
- “I don’t think this is a generation of slackers,” 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 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
- Kevin Smith wrote and directed the slacker hits “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.
- 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
datedA person who seeks to avoid military service.
- [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today[…]
- 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
rareslangA user of the Slackware Linux distribution.
- I'm a slacker from way back btw
- Hope you become a happy slacker.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。