Slowback

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. archaic, slang

    "The slowbacks and lazie bones will none of this"

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"The slowbacks and lazie bones will none of this"

Etymology

From slow + back.

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