SLACKER BOOK SERIES
The television series Rox has been noted for its "depiction of the slacker lifestyle. It gained subsequent exposure from the 1989 Superchunk single "Slack Motherfucker", and the 1990 film Slacker. Strickland chronically refers to Marty McFly, his father George McFly, Biff Tannen, and a group of teenage delinquents in Part II as "slackers". The term achieved renewed popularity following its use in the 1985 film Back to the Future in which James Tolkan's character Mr. An article tracking the evolution of the meaning of the term "Slacker" in defamation lawsuits between World War I and 2010, entitled When Slacker Was a Dirty Word: Defamation and Draft Dodging During World War I, was written by Attorney David Kluft for the Trademark and Copyright Law Blog. In April 1948, The New Republic referred to "resentment against taxes levied to aid slackers".
The shift in the use of "slacker" from its draft-related meaning to a more general sense of the avoidance of work is unclear. Army on managing the military draft efficiently: "War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals." Evolution The term was also used during the World War II period in the United States. A San Francisco Chronicle headline on 7 September 1918, read, "Slacker is Doused in Barrel of Paint". Senator Miles Poindexter discussed whether inquiries "to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft" had been managed properly. Attempts to track down such evaders were called slacker raids. In the United States during World War I, the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, specifically someone who avoided military service, equivalent to the later term draft dodger. 1942 US poster cautioning against slacking in the workplace
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