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  • noun Plural form of slacker.

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Examples

  • I also remember the country line dancing at the bar… and the name slackers rings a bell.

    The Intolerance at our Universities - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

  • They were the people we called slackers when they were teenagers and now they're in the workforce and they're saying they want life-work balance.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2001 2001

  • My boss, who has been working yeoman’s duty picking up all the slack from these slackers, is about to throw in the towel.

    Another Day 2008

  • My boss, who has been working yeoman’s duty picking up all the slack from these slackers, is about to throw in the towel.

    2008 April « Becca’s Byline 2008

  •    To the sloths of his generation — the so-called slackers —, it would never have occurred to them to be this brazen.

    Cookie 2010

  • And of all the vile and stark profanity which the war gave birth to on the lips of miserable and maimed soldiers, that flung on the slackers was the worst.

    The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905

  • The three members of Unwound aren't what you'd call slackers; after all, the '90s post-hardcore outfit worked harder, toured harder, and rocked harder than any of its peers this side of Fugazi.

    A.V. Club 2010

  • The three members of Unwound aren't what you'd call slackers; after all, the '90s post-hardcore outfit worked harder, toured harder, and rocked harder than any of its peers this side of Fugazi.

    A.V. Club 2010

  • The three members of Unwound aren't what you'd call slackers; after all, the '90s post-hardcore outfit worked harder, toured harder, and rocked harder than any of its peers this side of Fugazi.

    A.V. Club 2010

  • The three members of Unwound aren't what you'd call slackers; after all, the '90s post-hardcore outfit worked harder, toured harder, and rocked harder than any of its peers this side of Fugazi.

    A.V. Club 2010

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