SLOUCH


Meaning of SLOUCH in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

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Byron slouched back solidly in his chair, but Shelley never kept still.

He slouched back under his rug.

James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open.

in

But all this is available to a web site the moment you slouch in .

■ NOUN

chair

James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open.

The sun is setting now as John continues, o en staring at the skyscrapers, slouched in his chair .

She looked at me slouching into my chair , shoulders hunched into my body.

He generally came in late and slouched in a chair as far from Tabachnikov as possible.

One boy is slouched down in his chair , wearing a baseball cap, the bill turned backward.

The big man has been slouching in the leather chair , shouting at the wall, hands cupped.

I slouched in a near-by chair and saw all of it.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Ralph sat slouching at the dining room table.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At noon, in the sound-proofed wet-end booth, the foreman slouched beside him.

He slouched back under his rug.

He slouched into the passenger seat of the ivory Ford sedan and shut the door hard.

He was slouched pathetically against a boulder, his face turned shamefully to be the ground.

Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers.

She scans the groups until she sees a six-foot-three player slouching under a far basket.

The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At 12-1, Stanford is no slouch at home either, you know.

Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.

First off, let me say that when it comes to sushi, Tucson is no culinary slouch .

Guscott would not exactly be a slouch as a running back, either.

What if our slouch towards commitment ended at the altar?

Your engineer officer, McCafferty, is no slouch either and neither is mine.

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