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s lowch

  • n  an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions
    he's no slouch when it comes to baseball
  • n  a stooping carriage in standing and walking
  • v  assume a drooping posture or carriage
  • v  walk slovenly

  • With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his genderhe also has the chronic slouch and bob of a beat .
  • Even now scientists marvel at the daring of general relativity ("I still can't see how he thought of it," said the late Richard Feynman, no slouch himself).
  • But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and .
News & Articles

  • “Whitey” Bulger’s Lawyer is Tough, Too
    James “Whitey” Bulger may be one, tough dude, but his lawyer J W Carney is not exactly a slouch in the tough lawyer stakes.
    June 13, 2013 - LawFuel
  • Watch A Tuned Nissan GT-R Blitz The Quarter Mile In 8.61 Seconds
    The Nissan GT-R isn't known as a slouch in stock form. So when it's tuned, it's really fast. This one just set a world record in the quarter for street legal GT-Rs: 8.61 seconds at 170 MPH. Jeeeeepeers. The car here is tuned by the GT-R madmen at Switzer Performance, you know, the people who make 1,000 horsepower GT-Rs as easily as an Amish person churns butter or puts up a barn. This car is ...
    June 12, 2013 - Jalopnik
  • Couch Slouch’s summer guide to Sin City
    COUCH SLOUCH | Our intrepid guide for what to see in Las Vegas in the heat of summer.
    June 9, 2013 - Washington Post
Quotes

  • Vernon Forrest in ESPN
    Carlos is no slouch,Forrest said. "He brought everything for 12 rounds."
  • Takeo Spikes in Bridgewater Courier News
    I had the opportunity to play them two times a year the past four years, and I know they're not a slouch team,Spikes said.
  • Rocky Elsom in Sydney Morning Herald
    You wouldn't say it's ideal but the way we train and practice it's very much a squad focus so guys can slot in and out,Elsom said. "And Berrick is no slouch, it's not as though we don't have confidence in him."

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