slouch

Plural: slouches

Noun

• an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions
  • "he's no slouch when it comes to baseball"
• a stooping carriage in standing and walking
• A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
• Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
• Someone who is slow to act.
• An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

Verb

Verb Forms: slouched, slouching, slouches

• To sit, stand, or move with a drooping posture.
• assume a drooping posture or carriage
• walk slovenly
• To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
• To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
• To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.

Examples

• After a long losing streak, he began to slouch over his Words With Friends board, defeated.
• Do not slouch when playing a flute.
• He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
• I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
• The plant hung in a permanent slouch.

Synonyms

slump

Anagrams of slouch