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单词 slacker
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slackern.

Etymology: < slack v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈslacker.
1. (See quot. 1877, and cf. slaker n. 2.)
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice
hatchOE
clowa1250
lock1261
water lock1261
sluice1340
water gate1390
sewer-gate1402
spay1415
floodgatec1440
shuttlec1440
spayer1450
gate1496
falling gate1524
spoye1528
gote1531
penstock1542
ventil1570
drawgate1587
flood-hatch1587
turnpike1623
slaker1664
lock gate1677
hatchway1705
flash1768
turnpike-lock1771
sluice-gate1781
pound-lock1783
stop-gate1790
buck gate1791
slacker1797
aboiteau1802
koker1814
guard-lock1815
falling sluice1819
lasher1840
fender1847
tailgate1875
weir-hatch1875
wicket1875
1797 Trans. Soc. Arts 15 155 An oak head and slacke [r] is placed on the end [of the drain] next the land.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Slacker, a shuttle or stopgate to hinder the passage of water.
2. colloquial. A person who shirks work, or avoids exertion, exercise, etc. Also, spec. used in Military contexts in the war of 1914–18.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who
skulkc1320
loundererc1425
old soldier1722
malingerer1785
skulker1785
shirker1799
shirk1818
slink1824
schemer1843
sconcer1843
scrimshanker1882
scrimshank1886
sooner1892
Weary Willie1896
slacker1898
slackster1901
sugarer1904
work-shy1904
gold brick1905
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
lead-swinger1917
piker1917
gold-bricker1919
slinker1919
poler1938
skiver1941
1898 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. 4/1 I said it was a silly thing to do, and they retorted that I was a ‘slacker’.
1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions v. 37 What about a song, you slacker!
1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub ii. 62 An habitual slacker at Osborne, however, was soon sized up, and if repeated warnings did not cause him to mend his ways, he generally got the Order of the Boot at the end of his third term.
1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Years 217 He was a little slacker, the kind that used cribs later on in school life.
1933 H. C. Bailey Mr. Fortune Wonders 109 Eston strode past him with a laugh, ‘Had enough already?’ and Cicely pattered after crying, ‘Slacker!’
1964 A. Whitehouse Epics & Legends of First World War vi. 134 The..League..rendered important service in..handling the ‘slacker’ and conscientious-objector groups.
1969 R. Maugham Link ii. 16 ‘You're a slacker and you're a shirker,’ he said. ‘You're a little runt in many ways. But you're the best of the lot of them.’

Draft additions June 2001

Originally and chiefly U.S. A person regarded as one of a large group or generation of young people (esp. in the early to mid 1990s) characterized by apathy, aimlessness, and lack of ambition. Cf. Generation Xer n. at Generation X n. Derivatives.This use was popularized by Richard Linklater's 1991 U.S. film Slacker.
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1990 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 29 Aug. c5 Here was the full range of Austin lifestyles—old hippies, Hispanic teenagers, middle-age black professionals, underachieving writers and musicians known around town as ‘slackers’, [etc.].
1991 N.Y. Times 15 Mar. c34/3 The word ‘slacker’, he [sc. Richard Linklater] explained, is a Texas nickname for the type of non-student who clusters around the University of Texas campus eking out a marginal income while living a quasi-collegiate existence.
1991 Observer 8 Dec. 58/4 Nirvana certainly have the scruffy, shaggy look of ‘slackers’ (US slang for twentysomethings).
1994 Rolling Stone 19 May 66/1 Garofalo began her career as a stand-up in Providence, R.I., where she attended college, and later in Boston where she held slacker approved jobs like bike messenger and health-club receptionist.
1998 Rec. Collector Apr. 40/1 Following the success of his infamous ‘Loser’ single in 1994—catching the wave of the slacker zeitgeist.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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