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
  • The incredible snail mucin product is made to depuff your eyes, moisturize that tender skin, and help fight against those fine lines that settle in.
    Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Honda still needs to get the power to drive that snail from somewhere – this bike will need a substantially higher energy output from its alternator, and probably a larger battery, to run this compressor.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 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
  • Other Bets was the laggard, delivering a narrower but great-than-expected loss to $1.12 billion.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • With 90% of Australian’s employed in the services sector, those service sectors are exactly the ones that are laggards.
    Tim Clark, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of laggard
Noun
  • For years, however, the face of the gigantic crawler eluded scientists—Arthropleura fossils discovered since the 1800s were often only remnants of headless exoskeletons left behind during molting.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Previously, sites could distinguish between approving access to helpful bots that drive traffic, like search engine crawlers, and denying access to bad bots that try to take down sites or scrape sensitive or competitive data.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 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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