intransitive and reflexive. To avoid one's duty by false pretences; to shirk, flinch, hang back. Also with infinitive: To be reluctant or afraid to…

To shirk work; to idle. Obsolete.

To withdraw through laziness. rare.

To shirk duty; spec. to malinger.

intransitive. To pretend or exaggerate illness in order to escape duty or work; to feign or produce physical or psychological symptoms to obtain…

intransitive. To shirk work; to idle away one's time; to loiter, to loaf. With off: to leave in order to avoid a task.

intransitive. To practise evasion of work, one's duties, responsibilities, etc.

One who slinks about; a shirker. So as v. intransitive, to shirk.

intransitive. To avoid one's work or responsibilities; to shirk.

intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). Originally: to gamble cautiously or for small amounts. Hence more generally: to shirk; to hold back; to…

intransitive. To loiter, idle; to shirk work, play truant.

intransitive. To tell a lie or lies; to practise deception. Also: to evade a duty, to malinger.

to swing the lead: to idle, to shirk; to malinger. slang. Hence in similar phrases and in combinations, as lead-swing n. v.intransitive., lead-swinger…

intransitive. Australian and New Zealand. To shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on. Also transitive, to cadge or scrounge.

Colloquial phrase to dodge the column, to shirk one's duty; to avoid work.

colloquial (chiefly British). intransitive. Originally Military slang. To avoid work or a duty by staying away or leaving early; to shirk…

intransitive. To shirk one's duties, skive; to loaf around.

Nautical slang. to do a never: to shirk or loaf.

intransitive. U.S. To loaf, shirk one's duties or responsibilities; to mess about.

intransitive. To loaf around, shirk one's duties. Cf. to fuck off 2 at fuck, v. phrasal verbs 1.