lacker

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noun

One who is lacking, or in want.

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Meanings

lacker1

nounlacker (plural lackers)

plural lackers

  1. One who is lacking, or in want.

lacker2

nounlacker (countable and uncountable, plural lackers)

plural lackers

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of lacquer.
verblacker (third-person singular simple present lackers, present participle lackering, simple past and past participle lackered)

present singular third person lackers · participle present lackering · participle past lackered · past lackered

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of lacquer.

    Had he deemed it "wisest, best," Mr. O'Donagough was not without the means of furnishing a splendid mansion in very showy style, and yet not leaving a single morsel of lacker, or or-molu, unpaid for.

    1840, Frances Trollope, “Practical Information Carefully Obtained, and Promptly Acted upon— […]”, in The Widow Married; […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 2

Origin

From lack + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

lacker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacker

MLA

“lacker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lacker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacker.

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