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• n  an idle worthless person

• Workers also insist on more leisure on the job itselfor what auto executives call "goof-off time.
• Asch was a universal type, a latter-day Good Soldier Schweik, the goof-off who confounds every military system.
• Ruffalo is a very good goof-off, at once likable and infuriating, but eventually it is Phoenix who takes over the picture.

• goldbrick
• ne'er-do-well
• good-for-nothing
• no-account
• good-for-naught

News & Articles

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• Last-minute father’s day gift? How about a call from a title-winner?
  Father’s day is one of the most legendary goof-off holidays in human history. Does dad want a tie? No, but he’s getting one anyway. And the old man is so cool, he’ll smile fondly anyway. Unless… Unless dad happens to be a big college hoops fan, in which case you can throw a surprise curveball…
  June 15, 2013 - NBC Sports: Beyond the Arc

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school as my mom reminded me,said Obama, an Illinois Democrat who grew up in Hawaii.