"multishirk" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-multishirk.ogg [Australia] Forms: multishirks [present, singular, third-person], multishirking [participle, present], multishirked [participle, past], multishirked [past]
Etymology: multi- + shirk by analogy to multitask Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|multi|shirk}} multi- + shirk Head templates: {{en-verb}} multishirk (third-person singular simple present multishirks, present participle multishirking, simple past and past participle multishirked)
  1. (slang, humorous, neologism) To do more than one non-work activity at once. Tags: humorous, neologism, slang
    Sense id: en-multishirk-en-verb-3mMEDGCf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English neologisms, English terms prefixed with multi-

Inflected forms

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