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- noun Plural form of
skiver .
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Examples
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Fair Work Australia Act, will be a boon to "skivers" - a Scots word for people who don't pull their weight.
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Fair Work Australia Act, will be a boon to "skivers" - a Scots word for people who don't pull their weight.
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The actual skivers hated it as did the SMT because, as the IT guys told me with relish, the people clocking up the least time on the job were most of the SMT.
The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The government would love people to believe that the only losers are "scroungers" and "skivers".
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But Mercer's anecdotes generalised in effect to the idea that black soldiers are lying lazy skivers, and more so than say scousers, gingas, Irish or god preserve us the triple whammy of an Irish scouse ginga.
Archive 2007-03-04 2007
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Alternatively the office staff are a bunch of malingering skivers wonder which it is?
It's official - working in an office is more stressful than teaching 2007
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Alternatively the office staff are a bunch of malingering skivers wonder which it is?
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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We're the idlers, we're the skivers, we're the undeserving poor
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Anacrites was right; it was mid-morning: dangerously near the time when skivers had their lunch.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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You always got the same complement of trojans, skivers, flakes, whizzkids and bampots.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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