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- Shirk - v. t. - To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
- Shirk - v. t. - To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
- Shirk - v. i. - To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
- Shirk - v. i. - To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- Shirk - n. - One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
- Shirked - imp. & p. p. - of Shirk
- Shirker - n. - One who shirks.
- Shirking - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Shirk
- Shirky - a. - Disposed to shirk.
- Shirk - v. t. - To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
- Hedge - v. i. - To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.