Late 20th Century
The term achieved renewed popularity following its use in the 1985 film Back to the Future in which James Tolkan's character Mr. Strickland says "You've got a real attitude problem, McFly. You're a slacker! You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too." It gained subsequent exposure from the 1989 Superchunk single "Slack Motherfucker," and in the 1991 film Slacker. Slacker became widely used in the 1990s to refer to a subset of apathetic youth who were cynical and uninterested in political or social causes.
The term has connotations of "apathy and aimlessness." It is also used to refer to an educated person who avoids work, possibly as an anti-materialist stance, who may be viewed as an underachiever.
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Famous quotes containing the word late:
“I ... would rather be in dependance on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shewn they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)