slacker 

To smart to work, he thinks. Or she thinks.

An underachiever or irritatingly laid-back character.
Possibly disorganised, possibly prone to procrastination.

There can be a bit more to it than mere laziness or sloppiness, a perception that the rat race isn't worth it and shop-till-you-drop a surrogate happiness of low quality, and a slow poison, too. So this kind of slacker might (or might not) be dedicated to what he or she does (paragliding, for example), but would probably not list “climbing the corporate ladder” as an ambition or “shopping” as a hobby. May be a bit of a “Generation X” thing.
Hear Beck's song “Loser” or see the video for Soundgarden's “Black Hole Sun”.

B: “You know, while you got cash I had a look at the profiles you had your class fill out. Would you believe more than two third of the girls and several of the boys listed “shopping” as a hobby?
I mean, most of the girls I went to school with were crazy about buying all kinds of stuff and they would disappear in shoe shops for days, but list “shopping” as a hobby? No one would have thought of it as a damn “hobby”! And even if someone had, they still wouldn't have dared to admit they're so damn shallow. What has the world come to?

G: “Yeah, I know. Nothing to be done about that. The shits are doomed and so are we. You should see their parents. Now get off your butt and out of the car, you little slacker, we still need to get groceries.”

slacker by So? July 7, 2008

slacker 

A lazy azz person who instead of doing work, sits his azz on the couch and watches TV, plays video game, eats alot of food and never worries about anything because he know he will get the job done at the last minute and in the end just chill.

I am a slacker/bum/lowlife.

slacker by PSX December 28, 2005

slacker 

A person, usually a young one and frequently of the X-generation, who lives life at the minimum and is desirious of only enough cash to squeak by, working only to the degree necessary to acheive that dubious objective. Slackers are generally viewed as lazy and unambitious parasites on society in general, especially by older generations, including former hippies who were notably more noxious in their own youth. In the 1950s and before, the people who would nowadays be commonly characterized by the term slacker would have then been the individuals who necessitated innumerable red-lettered signs which pronounced No Loafing, signs which were prominently posted nationwide at nearly every gas station of the era and which were ignored on an equal magnitude by the people whom they specifically targeted.

Zachary is a slacker of the First Water... he's a part-timer at McDonald's, listens endlessly to classic Bob Dylan tunes, and lives with anyone who has yet to run him off.

slacker by The Grottomaster August 31, 2010

slacker 

1) The name of a great independent film from 1991 featuring such novelties as Madonna's pap smear. Shot in Austin, Texas, on a shoestring budget, it may be about the definitive movie on Slackers forever after.

Tends to be sort of affectionate slang in this context.

2) Synonym for a typical member of Generation X (born 1964-1981 roughly). Anyone who smoked reefer, wore flannel or owned the Chronic, Doggystyle or any music by Sublime, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam , Nirvana, Rancid , etc., in the first half of the 1990s. Anyone who liked movies directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Tends to be neutral slang, when used in this context.

3) Antonym of a politically aware member of the Baby Boom generation (born 1946-1963 roughly). Someone who thought of the Beatles, Vietnam, Woodstock or JFK being as historically relevant today as the Civil War or the War of 1812.

In this context is usually pejorative and insulting.

4) A description of a young man in the early 20th Century, who avoided military duty. An amoral, lazy coward.

Also negative in this context

1) The movie Slacker was brilliant. I could not stop seeing people I grew up with portrayed in the characters. It's a great movie to smoke weed and watch, when you're bored and not in the mood to write your Master's Thesis.

2) Wow. Lots of Slackers at Lollapalooza this year again. I wish someone would shoot Ani DeFranco.

3) You fucking Slackers think that Reaganomics was cool. You probably never even heard of Kent State or the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Too bad you weren't old enough to have had to have been drafted and sent to Vietnam.

4) You yellow-bellied slackers will be court-martialed, when General Patton returns from the Battle of the Bulge.

slacker by Assex 776 August 25, 2009

slacker 

someone who procrastinates so hard that they do the work the morning before it's due, if they do it at all. Someone who is even too lazy to copy, so they get someone to copy FOR them.

"Did you see Raman this morning? he was copying andreas science worK!"

"I know what a slacker"

slacker by Bob November 1, 2006

slacker 

A lazy-ass offspring of a yuppie and a soccer mom. A slacker puts off studying, learning, working. The slacker's favorite expression is "whatever."

Madison is a slacker. She never does her homework.

slacker by Sneaky Snyde June 1, 2005

Slacker 

A person who shirks kas work or duty
A person who evades military service at wartime
someone who don't do enough they fool around and don't give a FUCK!!!

Me, Tech N9ne
That guy sits around all day!
What a slacker!

Slacker by BeaneR9393 April 1, 2009