clock-watcher

noun

Definition of clock-watchernext
as in shirker

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  1. snail
  2. creeper
  3. slacker
  4. laggard
  5. crawler
  6. slowpoke
Noun
  • This luxurious sheet mask is infused with COSRX snail 96 mucin power essence, offering hydration and nourishment.
    Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Kena Betancur / Getty Images Gary the snail hitched a ride on SpongeBob SquarePants.
    Claudia Hernández, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of snail
Noun
  • But those seeking restraint and something more clever than the usual carnage will find this talky (in a good way) creeper offers more to chew on than the genre norm.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The creepers and the necklace are Chanel, of course.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of creeper
Noun
  • The documentary explores the band’s creation from their first EP Slay Tracks through to becoming slacker heroes signed to Matador Records before breaking up and reuniting on more than one occasion.
    Peter White, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024
  • For Cera, the move reunites him with the filmmaker behind one of his beloved roles, that of romantic slacker Scott Pilgrim from 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of slacker
Noun
  • Since Donald Trump’s victory, the group — a laggard for most of the year — has caught up in a hurry with the broader market, and is now up 20% in 2024, compared with the S&P 500’s 26% advance.
    Royce Branning, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Despite its pivotal role in establishing the modern tech industry, IBM has been dismissed as a perpetual laggard for over a decade, and for a good reason.
    Ken Berman, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of laggard
Noun
  • The Czech capital of 1.3 million people has for a long time been a popular destination for noisy stag parties and pub crawlers, largely from Britain.
    AFP, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Though engineers have devised tricks for steering crawlers away from such spam clusters, even Google’s crawlers still from time to time capture billions of unique URLs redirecting to the same place.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
Definition of crawler
Noun
  • Don’t wait for slowpokes to join in; follow your heart and make your dreams come true.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • That said, not everyone agrees that letting the slowpokes who fumble with their bags in the overhead bins off first is more polite.
    NerdWallet, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
Definition of slowpoke
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