Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping posture.
- intransitive verb To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
- intransitive verb To cause to droop; stoop.
- noun An awkward, drooping posture or gait.
- noun Slang An awkward, lazy, or inept person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To droop; hang down loosely.
- To have a clownish or loose ungainly gait, manner, or attitude; walk, sit, or pose in an awkward or loutish way.
- To depress; cause to hang down.
- noun An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow; an ungainly clown.
- noun A drooping or depression of the head or of some other part of the body; a stoop; an ungainly, clownish gait.
- noun A depression or hanging down; a droop: as, his hat had a slouch over his eyes.
- noun A slouch-hat.
- noun An inefficient or useless person or thing: usually with a negative, in praise: as, he's no slouch; it's no slouch, I tell you.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
- noun colloq. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
- noun a soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.
- intransitive verb To droop, as the head.
- intransitive verb colloq. To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
- transitive verb To cause to hang down; to depress at the side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hanging down of the
head ; a droopingposture ; alimp appearance - noun any
depression or hangingdown , as of a hat brim. - noun An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
- verb to
hang ordroop ; to adopt a limp posture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions
- verb walk slovenly
- verb assume a drooping posture or carriage
- noun a stooping carriage in standing and walking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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Moss playfully fired back during an interview with ESPN before the Patriots played the Jets, saying: "I don't really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a 'slouch,' then I guess the 'slouch' will be there to see you on Sunday."
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I am looking at this word "slouch" which I have never used like this before.
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This is the same Mr. Moss whom Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis assessed as a "slouch" last winter, and the same Mr. Moss who burned Mr. Revis on a touchdown reception during the Jets '28-14 victory over the Patriots on Sept. 19.
Jets Call Favre's Era 'Uncomfortable' Scott Cacciola 2010
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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Revis referred to Moss as a "slouch" while playing a word-association game on the NFL Network in January.
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