ditchers
Those who bail
Ditchers are people who dig or maintain ditches, or machines designed for that purpose.
More commonly, ditchers are people who abandon something or someone: The ditchers left their dates stranded at the prom.
To ditch is to discard, skip, or desert—ditchers do the ditching.
Unauthorized school skippers
- no-showsThose who fail appointments
- skippersVessel commanders
- bunkersFortified underground chambers
- ghostersThose who vanish mid-conversation
bailers · absconders · evaders · dropouts · AWOL · stragglers · nonparticipants · flakers
Those who avoid effort
- malingerersThose faking illness
- goldbricksShirks responsibilities deliberately
- loafersLaceless slip-on shoes
- idlersHabitually unproductive people
dodgers · avoiders · skivers · layabouts · deadbeats · sluggards · goof-offs · time-wasters
truants
Unauthorized school skippers
ghosters · bailers · absconders · evaders · dropouts · AWOL · stragglers · nonparticipants · flakers · deserters
slackers
Those who avoid effort
- malingerersThose faking illness
- goldbricksShirks responsibilities deliberately
- loafersLaceless slip-on shoes
idlers · dodgers · avoiders · skivers · layabouts · deadbeats · sluggards · goof-offs · time-wasters · procrastinators
trencher
Wooden food board
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- diggerOne who unearths
- earthmoverHeavy digging machinery
bulldozer · dredge · dragline · shovel · loader · grader · crawler · trackhoe · bucket · scoop
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
- ding-dong ditchedRang and fled mischievously
- irrigation ditchesTrenches for agricultural water
- ding-dong ditchesPranking by ringing doorbells
- keep it between the ditchesAdvice to stay safe