as in slug
a lazy person
he's always so busy that he would make anyone look like a slugabed by comparison
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Noun
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When Dina refuses an anesthetic slug of alcohol during the proceedings, Jesse gets the wind up.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2025 -
Rather than look to slug, Mookie Betts lifted a fly ball deep enough to advance Edman to third.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
Noun
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The main threats these forces faced along these front lines were not ISIS drones.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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The staff has been mapping every last crevice of salable land, a job that Barna, the operations V.P., told me may one day be done with drones.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
Noun
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The president’s willingness to take bold action has set in motion ambitious trade negotiations, which normally proceed at a snail’s pace.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 2025
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The flatworms first infect the snail, then a fish, and finally a warm-blooded vertebrate, like a bird or a human, that consumes the infected fish.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
Noun
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That’s a very different proposition being offered than the one that existed when a couch potato could only see their favorite episodes once or twice a year on the linear schedule.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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The wellness trend is a commitment to refocus our daily routines and habits before the first of the year, which enables us to lock in a healthy lifestyle and beat the temptation to eat more, be a couch potato and lax mental wellness during the cold winter months.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
Noun
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This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2024
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Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
26 July 2024
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“Slugabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugabed. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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