slacker
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The prototypical Gen Xer is resilient and cynical, a “latchkey kid” turned disaffected slacker, raised on MTV and limited parental supervision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
My backstory was that they lived in New York — he was trying to get in a band, it didn’t really happen for him, he was kind of a slacker.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
That realisation manifests in the lovestruck slacker rock of Dragonfly, and the finger-plucked Neptune Baby, with its refrain, "I'm a boat, and you are the water".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
My dad looks at me from head to toe, and I feel like the second-rate slacker he’s always taken me for.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Each, in their way, is ambitious — no room for slackers here!
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
These are the people cranking up productivity, impressing managers and making the rest of us look like slackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
On New Year’s Eve 1999, a group of teenage slackers face off against electronics that turn evil at the stroke of midnight in this zany horror-comedy directed by Kyle Mooney.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
“As a member of the Dawson County Council of Defense, I’m sworn to identify slackers and encourage them to do their patriotic duty.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
