clock-watcher

noun

Definition of clock-watchernext
as in shirker

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  1. snail
  2. lingerer
  3. creeper
  4. slacker
  5. straggler
  6. laggard
  7. loiterer
  8. crawler
Noun
  • Florida has dozens of native animals on the federal and state endangered species lists, including the Florida panther, West Indian manatee, Smalltooth sawfish, Hawksbill sea turtle and the Everglades snail kite.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
  • In 2020, scientists found that combining snail slime from a common garden snail with gold nanoparticles helped accelerate wound healing and exhibited anti-inflammatory properties in mice.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of snail
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  • Nakamura designs for lingerers.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of lingerer
Noun
  • Some are climbers or creepers, like euonymous (winter creeper).
    — Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 7 May 2026
  • This creeper has bluish-green foliage that turns reddish purple in winter and reaches 8-12 inches high with a spread of 6-8 feet.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of creeper
Noun
  • The slacker generation of latchkey kids has become the sandwich generation with a full house of both grandparents and children.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 July 2026
  • Inspired by the alien invasion genre and slacker hang out movies, the film is about a group of friends standing up against an alien invasion that threatens to swallow the whole world.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026
Definition of slacker
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  • On the streets below, vendors are hawking bootleg merchandise as stragglers from the festivities color the sidewalks with blue-and-orange jerseys and hats.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Saldaña, too, was at the party until the final stragglers began to head home.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 30 July 2026
Definition of straggler
Noun
  • McKinsey has found that companies leading in customer experience achieve more than twice the revenue growth of customer experience laggards.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The General Electric breakup has created tremendous shareholder value, but GEHC is the laggard of the three entities.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 July 2026
Definition of laggard
Noun
  • Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of loiterer
Noun
  • The rise of crawlers Search engines of the era confronted the scale problem with software.
    — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The website security provider helps companies protect against AI crawlers.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of crawler
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