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the spine's quiet rebellion against everything posture police hold sacred.
means To stand, sit, or move with a drooping, careless, ungraceful posture — or, as a noun, an inept or lazy person, usually in the phrase 'no slouch.'
from First surfaces in the 1500s meaning a lazy or unkempt person, of uncertain origin but likely Scandinavian — compare Old Norse 'slokr,' a lazy fellow, part of a whole family of 'sl-' words in English (slack, slug, sluggard, slump) that all seem to sag and droop by sound alone. The bodily sense — the caved chest and rounded shoulders — came later, the posture growing out of the person.
- phone effect
- Heads tilt forward adding 60 pounds of strain
- no slouch
- Praise hidden inside an insult about laziness
- gravity tax
- Discs compress measurably shorter by evening
- teen anthem
- Universal adolescent posture defying every parent alive
the slouch hat — australian military headwear adopted in 1885, worn by anzac forces
slouch posture disorder — documented medical condition affecting millions, treated by physical therapists
slouching epidemic in offices — occupational health crisis increasing back pain by 30% since 2010