slouch

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He stood in his customary slouch, a stance not improved by sacklike patched blue fatigues.

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  1. intransitive verb To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture.
  2. intransitive verb To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
  3. transitive verb To cause to droop; stoop.
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  • It's all shorthand: the slouch, the motorcycle, the brawling, the way his voice tends to creep into the soprano register when he's being extra dickish.
  • There were not that many against the underrated Wildcats (21-13), no 12th-seeded slouch, but the Vikings (26-11) did not have it in them to break through.
  • The paperback edition ain't no slouch, though ... the cover is a satin finish, a definitive upgrade over the easily-scuffed glossy cover of book one, and both editions of the book are printed in glorious, vibrant full-color on semigloss paper. —  Real Life Comics
  • The SURF is no slouch, boasting tri-band 3G, a 3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, aGPS and more, but it's hard to get excited about it when we've already moved on to anticipate the Motorola announces three new handsets, one you might care about Sling Media announces iPhone SlingPlayer application, HD Mac streaming Apple finally drops DRM on iTunes music, OTA 3G music downloads? —  Boy Genius Report
  • The $250 BDP-120 player is no slouch, with BD-Live, a 1GB flash drive, fast disc loading, —  Gizmodo
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. An assibilated form of early modern English *slouke or *sloke (cf. slouch, n.); related to English dial. slock, loose, Icelandic slōkr, a slouching fellow; from the verb represented by Swedish Norwegian sloka, droop, Low German freq. slukkern, be slack or loose (cf. Swedish slokörig, having drooping ears, slokig, hanging, slouching, Danish sluköret, crestfallen, literally having drooping ears, Low German slukk, melancholy); ult. a variant of slug: see slug. As a mainly dial. word, slouch in its various uses is scantly recorded in early writings.
  2. Early modern English also slowch; earlier, without assibilation, slouke, *sloke, from Icelandic slōkr, a slouching fellow; from the verb.
 

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