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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager [syn: welcher, welsher]

Merriam Webster's

noun see welsh

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Welsher Welsh"er, n. One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it. [Written also welcher.] [Slang, Eng.]

Moby Thesaurus

clock watcher, defaulter, delinquent, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, levanter, malingerer, nonpayer, old soldier, shirk, shirker, skulk, skulker, slacker, soldier, tax dodger, tax evader, truant