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slack ass en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US, slang, vulgar) Someone who is exceptionally lazy, careless, or irresponsible in their work or duties.
    • So when the rich taxpayer from the Uplands phones in a complaint about the slack-ass sitting on the curb beside his paint can with his nose in a book, it's decided I've finally stepped over the line, and I'm fired. 2008, Stevenson, Richard, Wiser Pills, page 53:
    • What's that? You want your slack ass in stockade? 2009, Pope, Liston, chapter 22, in Manifest Oedipus. America at war, page 814:
    • “It’s nothing to grin about, you slack ass,” Hopkinson snapped. 1937, Compton Mackenzie, The East Wind Of Love, page 64:

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