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Synonyms
couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, lazybones, lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard
Antonyms
doer, go-ahead, go-getter, hummer, hustler, rustler, self-starter
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1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1
perhaps short for landloafer, from German LandlÀufer tramp, from Land + LÀufer runner
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