"slackard" = slacker

[Laurence Horn]

>Just Googled up 1,700 of these.  Earliest (Usenet) is from Nov. 27,
>1998.  "Obviously"
>< slack(er) + (slugg)ard, but something phonological is at work, I think.
>
>JL
>
Could be it's not necessary a simply blend, but a reanalysis of
"slacker" as containing the deprecatory -ard suffix, also seen in
laggard (a closer match than "sluggard", perhaps) and of course other
pejoratives from the same general family, e.g. "drunkard".

Larry