Definition of "slugabed" []

• One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness. (noun)

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• "This one jumped in fully formed as I was lying slugabed and wishing for a real spring."
• "Harriet has been kicked out of her French lover's Greenwich Village apartment on the fairly reasonable basis that she is an acid-tongued slugabed who does nothing but sit around watching quiz shows and insulting his friends."
• "The other books in the first contract did much better not fast enough not to cost me that 30% and the books on the next contract did even better than that, so at this point the only slugabed in the group is #1 on the first contract."