slouch1 verbslouch2 noun
slouchslouch1 /slaʊtʃ/ verb [intransitive] 
Word OriginWORD ORIGINslouch1
Verb TableOrigin:
1500-1600 Probably from a Scandinavian languageVERB TABLE
slouch
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | slouch |
| he, she, it | slouches | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slouched |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slouched |
| he, she, it | has slouched | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slouched |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slouch |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slouched |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am slouching |
| he, she, it | is slouching | |
| you, we, they | are slouching | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was slouching |
| you, we, they | were slouching | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slouching |
| he, she, it | has been slouching | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slouching |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slouching |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slouching |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Ralph sat slouching at the dining room table.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorto be sitting in a chair, on the floor etc► sit
Collocations to be in a chair, on the floor etc, with the weight of your body resting on your bottom, not on your feet: · Is it okay if I sit here?· Do you want to sit next to Brian?· Let's go sit outside.· A woman in a huge hat came and sat right in front of us.· Billy sat on the edge of the desk, swinging his legs.· I saw a man with grey hair sitting in the car next to Jean.· Come and sit on Mommy's knee.sit at a desk/table/bar/fire etc: · A grey-haired woman was sitting at the reception desk.sit around a desk/table etc: · We all used to sit around the kitchen table, smoking and chatting.sit still (=sit quietly without moving): · I wish you children would sit still for 10 minutes.
► sit up to move your body so that you are sitting, after you have been lying down, or to sit so that your back is straight: · When I got home, Nigel was sitting up in bed.· Sit up like a big girl, and eat your dinner.sit up straight (=sit with your back very straight): · Cadets here are taught to always dress neatly and to sit up straight.
► sit back to lean your back against the back of the chair, after you have been sitting straight, especially because this is more comfortable: · Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the music.· Mel sat back on the couch and admired the view of the city.
► be seated formal to be sitting in a particular chair or place, especially because someone has asked or arranged for you to sit there: · The meal cannot start until everyone is seated.· John was seated on my left.· Helen was more than pleased to be seated beside Chris. She'd always wanted to meet him.
► lounge to sit so that you are very comfortable and relaxed, sometimes almost lying down: lounge on: · I dried off, then lounged on a hammock at the poolside.lounge in: · Are you the sort of person who likes to lounge in bed at the weekend?
► slump /be slumped to be sitting with the top of your body leaning forwards or sideways and down, as if you are very tired or as if you are unconscious: slump forward/in/against etc: · He slumped further forward, his lips parted and his eyes closed.· She slumped back in her seat.be slumped in/on/under etc: · Brad was slumped in front of the television watching the game.· Theresa found him slumped over the keyboard.sit slumped: · A young man sat slumped behind the hotel desk, showing little interest in the new arrivals.
► slouch/be slouched to sit in a tired or lazy way, often with your head down and your shoulders sloping downwards: · Marie, don't slouch, sit up straight.slouch back/against/in etc: · Cantor slouched back in his seat and lit a cigarette.· I slouched on a bench and watched the children feed the swans.be slouched in/over/beside etc : · One boy was slouched down in his chair, with a baseball cap almost covering his eyes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► back
to stand, sit, or walk with a slouchslouch back/against/in etc· 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.
Jimmy slouched back in his chair. She slouched across the living room.slouch1 verbslouch2 noun
slouchslouch2 noun ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Phrases- 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.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be no slouch (at something)
1be no slouch (at something) informal to be very good at something: - At 12-1, Stanford is no slouch at home either, you know.
- Bonds were no slouch, either.
- Reed, 33, is no slouch in the kitchen herself.
- Shearer is some talent, but Newell & Gallagher are no slouches.
- Your engineer officer, McCafferty, is no slouch either and neither is mine.
Horowitz was no slouch at languages.2[singular] a way of standing, sitting, or walking with your shoulders bent forward that makes you look tired or lazy