From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishslouchslouch1 /slaʊtʃ/ verb [intransitive] SITto stand, sit, or walk with a slouchslouch back/against/in etc Jimmy slouched back in his chair. She slouched across the living room.→ See Verb table
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slouch• Ralph sat slouching at the dining room table.• He slouched back under his rug.• At noon, in the sound-proofed wet-end booth, the foreman slouched beside him.• He slouched into the passenger seat of the ivory Ford sedan and shut the door hard.• Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers.• He was slouched pathetically against a boulder, his face turned shamefully to be the ground.• The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction.• She scans the groups until she sees a six-foot-three player slouching under a far basket.slouch back/against/in etc• But all this is available to a web site the moment you slouch in.• He generally came in late and slouched in a chair as far from Tabachnikov as possible.• The sun is setting now as John continues, o en staring at the skyscrapers, slouched in his chair.• Byron slouched back solidly in his chair, but Shelley never kept still.• The tall lanky figure of Billy Tolboys was slouched in the comer seat by the fire.• Reed, 33, is no slouch in the kitchen herself.• They loosen their ties and slouch against the wall with hands in pockets in manufactured nonchalance.• He slouched back under his rug.slouchslouch2 noun 1 → be no slouch (at something)2 [singular]SIT a way of standing, sitting, or walking with your shoulders bent forward that makes you look tired or lazyExamples from the Corpus
slouch• Guscott would not exactly be a slouch as a running back, either.• First off, let me say that when it comes to sushi, Tucson is no culinary slouch.• Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.• Your engineer officer, McCafferty, is no slouch either and neither is mine.• At 12-1, Stanford is no slouch at home either, you know.• What if our slouch towards commitment ended at the altar?Origin slouch1 (1500-1600) Probably from a Scandinavian language 