slacker

slacker
One who evades a duty, particularly the duty of rendering military service in time of war. The word is not found in lexicons published prior to World War 1, but had its genesis as to use and meaning in the conditions following our entrance into such war, and in the exigencies of its successful prosecution. During the war it was unquestionably a term of the severest reproach, well understood by all men, and calculated to subject its bearer to hatred and contempt in practically every community in the land. Choctaw Coal & Mining Co. v Lillich, 204 Ala 533, 86 So 383, 11 ALR 1014, 1016.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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