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
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
Some of the plot is just unnecessary padding, like Daniel’s girlfriend troubles and slacker mentality, spiking in an odd scene where he hysterically bemoans his own uselessness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Instead of feeling like a lazy slacker, he had thought he could hear admiration in the voice of his supervisor.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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
While the letter doesn't call out any groups by name, the message is clearly intended to put slackers on high alert.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
Grubby Gen Xers were designated the OG slackers, which did not bode well for becoming the bosses of the future.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
"To-morrow we’ll be in Udine. We'll drink champagne. That’s where the slackers live. Wake up, Piani! We’ll drink champagne to-morrow in Udine!"
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
