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Slouch   /slaʊtʃ/   Listen
noun
Slouch  n.  
1.
A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
2.
An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. (Colloq.)
Slouch hat, a soft, limp hat of unstiffened cloth or felt.


verb
Slouch  v. t.  To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.


Slouch  v. i.  (past & past part. slouched; pres. part. slouching)  
1.
To droop, as the head.
2.
To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. (Colloq.)





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"Slouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... a lad of the lower orders. You must try to imitate his walk and manner. Shove your hands deep in your pockets, shuffle your feet along carelessly; let your head roll about as if it were uneasy on your neck, round your shoulders, and slouch your head forward. As to you Jules, your role should be impertinence. Put your cap on the wrong way; hold your nose in the air; pull your short hair down over your forehead, and let some of it spurt out through that hole in your cap. To be quite correct, ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty
... slouch about the rooms, feeling depressed. The prohibition of visits to the kitchen has reduced them to dejection. They refuse sweets, are naughty, and are rude to their mother. When their uncle Petrusha comes ...
— The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... through the camp a group of officers congregated before a large mess tent appeared to be highly amused by the conversation—half monologue and half harangue of a singular-looking individual who stood in the centre. He wore a "slouch" hat, to the band of which he had imparted a military air by the addition of a gold cord, but the brim was caught up at the side in a peculiarly theatrical and highly artificial fashion. A heavy cavalry sabre depended from a broad-buckled belt under ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte
... one will but make a mental appraisement of the first one hundred people he meets, he will see among the number quite a few who reveal a lack of physical vigor. They droop and slouch along and seem to be dragging their bodies instead of being propelled through space by their bodies. They can neither stand nor walk as a human being ought to stand and walk, and their entire ensemble is altogether unbeautiful. We feel instinctively that, being fashioned in the image ...
— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson
... hand, and watched the loose-jointed figure slouch down the pavement and out the back gate. He was cheerfully whistling the doxology, and his face wore the rapt expression of one whose thoughts are not on earthly things. She sighed ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice


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