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
  • What Happens Now The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently conducting a review of the snail's status to see whether the species needs special protection.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There was the man with 100 live snakes down his pants, another with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body, the 90 giant African snails discovered in Detroit and the endangered red panda found in Bangkok alongside 86 other animals.
    CNN, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of snail
Noun
  • Wear creepers attached to boots to prevent slipping on clear ice. Carry a spud bar to check the ice while walking to new areas.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of creeper
Noun
  • Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The birth of Spencer’s The first generation of shoppers to get hooked on Spencer’s weren’t the mallrat slackers of Gen-X or even the forever youthful Baby Boomers.
    Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of slacker
Noun
  • Whether financial costs, share price impacts, brand, customer trust or loyalty, third-party liability, or legal costs, the costs and expenses of these incidents will only increase for the boardroom laggards.
    Bob Zukis, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Federal Realty Investment Trust is the biggest laggard, down 6.3% in January.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of laggard
Noun
  • Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.
    Beth Worthy, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • An expert is speaking out about the best place to store your luggage in order to avoid bringing creepy crawlers home after home rentals or hotel stays.
    Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
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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clock (up)

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