---

• n  a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
• s  not tense or taut
• s  flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
• s  lacking in rigor or strictness

• He's the thinking man's slacker, but his prose is a force multiplierlucid, honest and unhampered by neurotic self-loathing.
• Shirking the media myth that Xers are slackers, Gordinier argues that Generation X has to borrow a '60s term changed the world.
• If you think you have to be a slacker yourself to make a comedy about two slacker folk musicians, consider the plight of Bret McKenzie.

• shirker
• loose
• slack
• lax

News & Articles

---

• Photos: 28 Amazing Instagrams, Twitpics, and Vines of the #Boston #Rainbow - RadioBDC blog - Boston.com
  Who brought the rainbow with them to Boston? Was it Obama? Was it the Stones? Or was it -- and this is the prevailing opinion on the Twitterz -- a sign from the hockey gods that they will look favorably on your Boston Bruins for Game One of the Stanley Cup? (Minority opinion: it's a slacker, a few days late for Pride Week.) Whoever brought it, Boston was intent on capturing the rainbow -- make ...
  June 13, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Comments
  Slacker’s senior VP Jack Isquith has no problem playing Tim McGraw and Justin Timberlake on the same station.
  June 12, 2013 - San Diego Reader
• iTunes Radio? Pandora And Slacker Are Not Impressed
  Apple unveiled its long-rumored iRadio, er, iTunes Radio service this morning at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Now that we know the basics of the streaming music service (which is supposed to launch this fall), one of the obvious questions is: What does this mean for existing Internet radio/online music services like Pandora and Spotify? Well, I emailed Pandora, Rdio, Slacker, and Spotify ...
  June 10, 2013 - TechCrunch

Quotes

---

• Lance Armstrong in International Herald Tribune
  I still go in with modest expectations mixed with nerves, mixed with excitement,Armstrong said. "I'm not a slacker but with no major goals other than make it through and get back into the rhythm of racing. Those juices are flowing through...
• Bono in Rolling Stone
  Our Peter Parker is much more: not Kurt Cobain, but a kind of slacker, a more kind of shy sort of guy,Bono told the BBC about how his and the Edge's vision of the superhero will differ from the comic and recent films.
• Joakim Noah in ESPN
  I don't want people thinking I'm a slacker,Noah said. "I knew I had to come out with something. If I didn't I was going to get benched again and I didn't want that to happen."