as in shirker
one who deliberately avoids work or duty
the goldbricks among the colonists were warned: no work, no food
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Verb
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On March 17, a video obtained by TMZ showed LaBeouf in a hotel lobby in Rome, Italy, wearing only his underwear and trying to bum a light for a cigarette.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026 -
Spring cleaning bumming you out?—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Some of these teams are already in a hole too deep to get out of, but the Diamondbacks have hung around just enough.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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And the early foul trouble in Game 2 created shades of Games 2 and 3 against the Hawks, where Atlanta hung around just long enough to pull away with one-point victories to take a 2-1 series lead before the Knicks outscored them by nearly 100 points over their final three games.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
7 May 2026
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Presumably, future episodes will continue to offer various one-off installments set in the show’s original status quo, when Mordecai and Rigby were just young slackers trying to avoid work.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
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Plus, the slacker peaches finally get to work.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
Verb
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The show’s characters idled away their time watching programs like Years of Our Days to Live.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Outside night clubs on Connecticut Avenue, girls hung out of the sunroofs of idling cars, cheering on the cops.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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“Goldbrick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goldbrick. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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