English Dictionary

slacker

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈslækɚ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 古風 稀用 俗語

One who procrastinates or is lazy. / A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever. / A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.

日本語の意味

怠け者（先延ばしにする人、無気力で方向性のない人） / 先延ばしする人（後回しにする性格の人） / 目的意識や情熱の欠如した人（生きる方向性を失っている人） / 1990年代のジェネレーションXに関連するサブカルチャーの一員

Don't be a slacker when your teammates are counting on you.

チームメイトが頼りにしているときに先延ばしする人にならないでください。

意味（1）

One who procrastinates or is lazy.

意味（2）

A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.

“I don’t think this is a generation of slackers,” said Carl Van Horn, a labor economist at Rutgers. “This image of the kid who goes off and skis in Colorado, I don’t think that’s the correct image. Today’s young people are very focused on trying to work hard and to get ahead.”

意味（3）

A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.

Kevin Smith wrote and directed the slacker hits “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy,” but lately it is his other life—maintaining six Web sites that he describes as “devoted to my fans and my films”—that seems to consume him.

意味（4）

(dated, US) A person who seeks to avoid military service.

[S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today[…]

意味（5）

(rare, slang) A user of the Slackware Linux distribution.

I'm a slacker from way back btw

slackers （ plural ）