Slacker vs Lazybones - What's the difference?
slacker | lazybones |
One who procrastinates or is lazy.
A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
A person who seeks to avoid military service.
* 1918 September 10, New York Times ,
* 1943 September 29, New York Times ,
(very rare) A user of the Slackware Linux operating system.
* 1996 August 15, stephen benson,
* 2002 January 15, Josh,
* 2007 May 16, Dan C,
A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
(slang) A person who is lazy; one who is inactive and without ambition.
* 1839 , , Oliver Twist , ch. 42,
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 145.
As a verb slacker
is .As a noun lazybones is
(slang) a person who is lazy; one who is inactive and without ambition.slacker
English
Noun
(wikipedia slacker) (en noun)"Take Slackers into Army",
- [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today...
"Wheeler assails Bureau 'Slackers'",
- Senator Burton K. Wheeler opened his fight in the Senate today..., raising the cry of "slackers " against deferred workers in Government establishments and industry.
"Re: How broken is Infomagic's Redhat linux?", comp.os.linux.setup, Usenet ,
- I'm a slacker from way back btw
"Re: slackware installation issue", comp.os.linux, Usenet ,
- Hope you become a happy slacker .
"Re: Distro Poll, what do you use?", alt.os.linux, Usenet ,
- Any real Slacker would know better than to top-post, AND post a bunch of HTML-crap to boot. You're not worthy.
Anagrams
*lazybones
English
Noun
(lazybones)- The foremost traveller stopped and called impatiently to his companion. "Come on, can't yer? What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte."
- Isn't it time you got up, you lazybones ?