I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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Byron slouched back solidly in his chair, but Shelley never kept still.
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He slouched back under his rug.
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James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open.
in
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But all this is available to a web site the moment you slouch in .
■ NOUN
chair
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James was slouched back in his chair with his mouth a little open.
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The sun is setting now as John continues, o en staring at the skyscrapers, slouched in his chair .
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She looked at me slouching into my chair , shoulders hunched into my body.
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He generally came in late and slouched in a chair as far from Tabachnikov as possible.
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One boy is slouched down in his chair , wearing a baseball cap, the bill turned backward.
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The big man has been slouching in the leather chair , shouting at the wall, hands cupped.
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I slouched in a near-by chair and saw all of it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ralph sat slouching at the dining room table.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At noon, in the sound-proofed wet-end booth, the foreman slouched beside him.
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He slouched back under his rug.
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He slouched into the passenger seat of the ivory Ford sedan and shut the door hard.
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He was slouched pathetically against a boulder, his face turned shamefully to be the ground.
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Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers.
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She scans the groups until she sees a six-foot-three player slouching under a far basket.
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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
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At 12-1, Stanford is no slouch at home either, you know.
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Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
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First off, let me say that when it comes to sushi, Tucson is no culinary slouch .
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Guscott would not exactly be a slouch as a running back, either.
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What if our slouch towards commitment ended at the altar?
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Your engineer officer, McCafferty, is no slouch either and neither is mine.