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Plural of slacker

regular plural

The plural of slacker is slackers.

Forms of slacker

Singularslacker /ˈslækɚ/
Pluralslackers
Countablecountable

Slackers in a sentence

  • “I don’t think this is a generation of slackers,” said Carl Van Horn, a labor economist at Rutgers.2011 May 28, Catherine Rampell, quoting Carl Van Horn, “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.2010, Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, page 121
  • To congregants who support the church Sunday after Sunday, Holly-Lily folks can be easily stereotyped as slackers who want a good church without the hassle of participation.2013 December 17, Rachel G. Hackenberg, “In Defense of the Holly-Lily Crowd”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 20 Apr…. From the entry holly-lily

Meaning of slacker

  1. noun One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.
  2. noun A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
  3. noun A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.

Full definition of slacker

Questions about the plural of slacker

What is the plural of slacker?
The plural of slacker is slackers.
Is slacker countable?
Slacker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slacker (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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