slouch


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
slouch/slaʊtʃ/
verb
  • 1 stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way.
  • 2 dated bend one side of the brim of (a hat) downwards.
noun
  • 1 a lazy, drooping posture or movement.
  • 2 [usu. with neg.] informal an incompetent person: he was no slouch at making a buck.
  • 3 a downward bend of a hat brim.
– derivatives
slouchy adjective.
– origin C16 (in the sense ‘lazy, slovenly person’): of unknown origin.
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