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slackerdom en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English slacker Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-West Germanic *-dōm Old English -dōm Middle English -dom English -dom English slackerdom From slacker + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The world or lifestyle of slackers; laziness.
    • ...so numerous and nebulous that to list just a few of them does a disservice to the vastness of the ennui that prompted the emergence of slackerdom. 2002, Peter Hanson, The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study of Films and Directors:
    • Would not her refusal to do so be craven flight from the new reality which faces her, a kind of desertion or slackerdom? 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Morale, the Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct: