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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slouch
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
▪ Byron slouched back solidly in his chair, but Shelley never kept still.
▪ He slouched back under his rug.
▪ James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open.
in
▪ But all this is available to a web site the moment you slouch in.
■ NOUN
chair
▪ James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open.
▪ The sun is setting now as John continues, o en staring at the skyscrapers, slouched in his chair.
▪ She looked at me slouching into my chair, shoulders hunched into my body.
▪ He generally came in late and slouched in a chair as far from Tabachnikov as possible.
▪ One boy is slouched down in his chair, wearing a baseball cap, the bill turned backward.
▪ The big man has been slouching in the leather chair, shouting at the wall, hands cupped.
▪ I slouched in a near-by chair and saw all of it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ralph sat slouching at the dining room table.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At noon, in the sound-proofed wet-end booth, the foreman slouched beside him.
▪ He slouched back under his rug.
▪ He slouched into the passenger seat of the ivory Ford sedan and shut the door hard.
▪ He was slouched pathetically against a boulder, his face turned shamefully to be the ground.
▪ Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers.
▪ She scans the groups until she sees a six-foot-three player slouching under a far basket.
▪ The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At 12-1, Stanford is no slouch at home either, you know.
▪ Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
▪ First off, let me say that when it comes to sushi, Tucson is no culinary slouch.
▪ Guscott would not exactly be a slouch as a running back, either.
▪ What if our slouch towards commitment ended at the altar?
▪ Your engineer officer, McCafferty, is no slouch either and neither is mine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slouch

Slouch \Slouch\, n. [Cf. Icel. sl?kra slouching felloew, and E. slack, slug, a lazy fellow.]

  1. A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

  2. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. [Colloq.]

    Slouth hat, a soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.

Slouch

Slouch \Slouch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Slouching.]

  1. To droop, as the head.

  2. To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. [Colloq.]

Slouch

Slouch \Slouch\, v. t. To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slouch

"walk with a slouch," 1754; "have a downcast or stooped aspect," 1755; from slouch (n.). Related: Slouched; slouching (1610s as a past participle adjective; 1660s of persons, 1690s of hats).

slouch

1510s, "lazy man," variant of slouk (1560s), probably from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse slokr "lazy fellow," and related to slack (adj.) on the notion of "sagging, drooping." Meaning "stooping of the head and shoulders" first recorded 1725. Slouch hat, made of soft material, first attested 1764.

Wiktionary
slouch

n. 1 A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance 2 Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim. 3 Someone who is slow to act. 4 (context dated English) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture 2 (context intransitive English) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

WordNet
slouch
  1. n. an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions; "he's no slouch when it comes to baseball"

  2. a stooping carriage in standing and walking

  3. v. assume a drooping posture or carriage [syn: slump]

  4. walk slovenly

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "slouch".

Vato and Blood were slouched in folding chairs when Takeshi and DL came in to open up shop, both humming back and forth in a strange free-form antiphony, sometimes falling silent, picking up the tune two and a half bars later exactly together, latently menacing, like a bee swarm.

The houses of the workpeople at Blarney are neat and trim, white and clean, and a repose to the eyes of beholders, sick of slouching thatch and bulging mud walls.

Dragging the sledges carrying the wounded and dead, the foot warriors slouched along in no particular order, the discipline Brian Boru had enforced now abandoned.

No slouch, the senior legate Gaius Verres had assessed Malleolus accurately before the party had got as far as Tarentum, and cultivated the quaestor with such charm and winning ways that Malleolus deemed Verres the best of good fellows.

From his place at the far end of the table, Manny watched Angleton slouch back into his seat, almost like an animal gathering itself for a kill.

After Lavadie had slunk off, Bernabe slouched out to his pickup, tuned the radio to mariachi music coming from KKCV in Chamisaville, and steered onto the highway, turning south.

Dhalla stood impassively on guard behind them, standing rigidly to attention with her spear in her hand, but that appearance was let down by the much tinier figure of Merel Zabio, who stood beside her in a calculatedly negligent slouch.

Yeunnin-fashion down to the vodclub, sat at the table with Morana and the alien for four hours, abandoned the premises on the microdot of midnight, and slouched home, shedding his Hooyoo manner little by little, so that by the time he stepped inside his apartment, he was Brownell Lofton once again and jubilant with success.

To dispel the illusion that so outmatched his own arts, the Black Dragon stooped forward to clutch at the spread cloak and the slouch hat that tilted from the top of the cloth blot.

Dressed in a fashionable high-collared overcloak and swank slouch hat, she certainly looked the part - well enough to have fooled the young Jedi trailing her when she and an assistant exchanged clothes in the refresher station of a crowded transit hub.

The noise seemed to please the men, who were slouching along heavily in their best clothes, and Patu left his wife, and running up to a farm servant whom he perceived behind a tree, took his gun and fired a shot himself, as frisky as a young colt.

Even the press row was accommodated by an assprtment of newspaper and radio people, slouching in their seats, quietly awaiting the recommencement of the proceedings with smiling interest.

The woman behind the counter took our order then slouched over to the fryers to refry some chips.

I just slouched in my seat and watched as Spangler hustled by, too intent on avoiding puddles to even give me a second look.

A young human tottered up to our stage, wearing clean, unpatched clothing and a slouch.