noun
- a lazy person who avoids work or effort
Usage: informal
Examples
- Come on, lazybones, it’s time to get out of bed!
- Don’t be such a lazybones—help me clean the garage.
- My brother is a real lazybones who sleeps until noon every day.
- She called him a lazybones for watching TV instead of doing homework.
- The teacher jokingly referred to her sleepy students as lazybones.
- Stop being a lazybones and come help with dinner.