Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience

Usage examples of slacker.

He knew nothing about three-quarter work, but he had played forward ever since he had gone to the Fernhurst preparatory at ten years of age, and could always spot the worker and the slacker, which Lovelace major never could.

Edward had always been spoiled rotten, a bully and a slacker who got others to do his work.

For months he had been doing this very thing, starting through the desert toward the south slackers and fugitives of all descriptions.

The marks of the whole form will count, so that slackers will be a distinct drawback to their own companies.

Micky Miranda, were the worst beasts in the entire school: slackers, bad sports and bullies.

Scott and other legislators say reforms are necessary to improve the image of the Legislature, which is still regarded by many Floridians as a springtime gathering of slackers, pickpockets and whores.

These resented the ascendancy of the women, and grumbled about them or made vulgar jokes, and in their turn the women considered them weaklings or slackers and held them in ill-disguised contempt.

No deserters and slackers were the founders of the Bismarckian state, but the regiments at the front.

No deserters and slackers were the founders of the Bismarckian state, but the regiments at the front.

The three units of armor received an honest preservice check this time, and Feth was no slacker.

Father and daughter, consulting together in the presence of Andrew Cormack, arrived at the conclusion that, work being rather slacker than usual, and nobody in need of any promised job which the soutar could not finish by himself in good time, Maggie was quite at liberty to go.

One of the graduate prorectors' little tasks is supposedly to go around to different Subdorm floors and check the rooms for things like are the beds made up drum-tight, with unpleasant little extra drills added to the regimens of bed-making and toothpaste-cap replacing slackers, though few of the prorectors have the combination anality and drive actually to go around to their assigned rooms with a checklist, the exceptions being Au brey deLint, Mary Esther Thode, and the hatchet-faced Kenyan Tony Nwangi, who's got the Pemulis/Troeltsch/Schacht suite under extremely beady scrutiny at all times.

He collects blurry non-color-adjusted photos taken with instamatics and scanned into JPEG format and posted on 30 million websites, and he brings them to his hard drive and categorizes them like his own personalized pornography magazine and he takes out his laptop on lonely Saturday nights and masturbates to his fellow slacker compatriots without them knowing.

Sean was a slender, athletic type, close-cropped blonde hair and a certain slouchiness that betrayed his slacker stature.

And so short-sighted he'd bought a horse from Jack Slacker, who went around all the horse fairs' bargain bins and sold winded old screws that dropped a leg before you'd got home.