slowback
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Noun
editslowback (plural slowbacks)
- (archaic, slang) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer.
- 1619, John Favour, Antiquitie triumphing over Noveltie:
- The slowbacks and lazie bones will none of this
References
edit“slowback”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.