Slacker vs Slicker - What's the difference?
slacker | slicker |
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.
(slick)
One who or that which s.
A waterproof coat or jacket.
A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
A kind of burnisher for leather.
(metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
As a verb slacker
is .As an adjective slicker is
(slick).As a noun slicker is
one who or that which s.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.