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Slacker vs Loafer - What's the difference?

slacker | loafer |

As nouns the difference between slacker and loafer

is that slacker is one who procrastinates or is lazy while loafer is an idle person.

slacker

English

Noun

(wikipedia slacker) (en noun)
  • 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 , "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...
  • * 1943 September 29, New York Times , "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.
  • (very rare) A user of the Slackware Linux operating system.
  • * 1996 August 15, stephen benson, "Re: How broken is Infomagic's Redhat linux?", comp.os.linux.setup, Usenet ,
    • I'm a slacker from way back btw
  • * 2002 January 15, Josh, "Re: slackware installation issue", comp.os.linux, Usenet ,
    • Hope you become a happy slacker .
  • * 2007 May 16, Dan C, "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.
  • A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.

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    loafer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An idle person.
  • A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

    • Synonyms

    * (idle person ): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo * (footwear ): penny loafer * See also

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