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slouch - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping posture.
- intransitive verb To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
- intransitive verb To cause to droop; stoop.
- noun An awkward, drooping posture or gait.
- noun Slang An awkward, lazy, or inept person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To droop; hang down loosely.
- To have a clownish or loose ungainly gait, manner, or attitude; walk, sit, or pose in an awkward or loutish way.
- To depress; cause to hang down.
- noun An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow; an ungainly clown.
- noun A drooping or depression of the head or of some other part of the body; a stoop; an ungainly, clownish gait.
- noun A depression or hanging down; a droop: as, his hat had a slouch over his eyes.
- noun A slouch-hat.
- noun An inefficient or useless person or thing: usually with a negative, in praise: as, he's no slouch; it's no slouch, I tell you.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
- noun colloq. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
- noun a soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.
- intransitive verb To droop, as the head.
- intransitive verb colloq. To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
- transitive verb To cause to hang down; to depress at the side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hanging down of the
head ; a droopingposture ; alimp appearance - noun any
depression or hangingdown , as of a hat brim. - noun An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
- verb to
hang ordroop ; to adopt a limp posture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions
- verb walk slovenly
- verb assume a drooping posture or carriage
- noun a stooping carriage in standing and walking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Origin unknown.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old Norse slókr ("a slouching, lazy fellow"), (cognate to Swedish sloka, to wilt, slouch.
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Examples
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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I am looking at this word "slouch" which I have never used like this before.
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This is the same Mr. Moss whom Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis assessed as a "slouch" last winter, and the same Mr. Moss who burned Mr. Revis on a touchdown reception during the Jets '28-14 victory over the Patriots on Sept. 19.
Jets Call Favre's Era 'Uncomfortable' Scott Cacciola 2010
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
Related Words
synonyms (237)
Words with the same meaning
- amble
- andante
- arm
- barge
- bay
- bayou
- bend
- blockhead
- blunderer
- blunderhead
- bog
- boor
- botcher
- bowl along
- bum
- bum around
- bumbler
- bundle
- bungler
- cave
- cave in
- claudication
- clock watcher
- clod
- clodhopper
- clodknocker
- clot
- clown
- clump
- cove
- crawl
- creek
- creep
- dallier
- dawdle
- dawdler
- dead march
- decline
- diddler
- dillydallier
- do nothing
- do-nothing
- dogtrot
- dolittle
- dolt
- doodler
- drag
- droop
- faineant
- fen
- flop
- flop down
- flounce
- flump
- flump down
- foot
- footpace
- footslog
- founder
- fumbler
- funeral march
- gait
- gallop
- gaum
- gawk
- gentleman of leisure
- give way
- go down
- goldbrick
- goldbricker
- goof off
- goof-off
- gowk
- gulf
- halt
- hang around
- harbor
- hippety-hop
- hitch
- hobble
- hop
- hunch
- idle
- idleness
- idler
- indolence
- jog
- jog trot
- jolt
- jump
- klutz
- laggard
- lapse
- laze
- laziness
- lazy
- lazybones
- lean
- leisurely gait
- lie around
- limp
- lingerer
- loaf
- loafer
- lobster
- lock step
- loiter about
- loiterer
- loll
- loll around
- loller
- lollop
- lollop around
- looby
- lop
- lotus-eater
- lough
- lounge
- lounge around
- lounger
- lout
- lower
- lubber
- lumber
- lumbering pace
- lump
- lunge
- lurch
- malingerer
- marsh
- marshland
- meathead
- mince
- mincing steps
- mire
- mooch around
- moon
- moon around
- mope
- moper
- morass
- no slouch
- oaf
- ox
- pace
- paddle
- peg
- piaffe
- piaffer
- plod
- plop
- plop down
- plump
- potterer
- prance
- putterer
- quagmire
- rack
- roll
- sag
- sashay
- saunter
- scuff
- scuffle
- scuttle
- set
- settle
- settle down
- shamble
- shuffle
- sidle
- single-foot
- sink
- sink down
- sit around
- skip
- slink
- slither
- slog
- slothfulness
- slouch around
- sloucher
- slough
- sloven
- slow march
- slow motion
- slowness
- slubberer
- slug
- slugabed
- sluggard
- sluggishness
- slump
- slump down
- stagger
- stalk
- stamp
- stand around
- step
- stick-in-the-mud
- stomp
- stoop
- straddle
- straggle
- stride
- stroll
- strolling gait
- strut
- stump
- submerge
- subside
- sump
- swag
- swagger
- swampland
- swing
- time killer
- time waster
- tittup
- toddle
- totter
- traipse
- tread
- trifler
- trip
- trollop
- trot
- trudge
- velocity
- waddle
- waiter on Providence
- walk
- wamble
- wiggle
- wilt
- wobble
- yokel
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