casual

1. (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.AustraliaBritishNew-Zealand

2. (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).Examples: "At 15, he became a casual: one of the label-wearing, wedge-flicking, swaggering hooligan peacock boys who dominated the north-west when I was growing up. Casuals were working-class lads (called Perry boys in Manchester) who loved football, fighting and brilliant sportswear."Synonyms: dresser#English:_undercover football hooligan, Perry boyUKhistorical

3. (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.Examples: "During the great prevalence of vagrancy, the cost of the sick was far greater than the expense of relief. In the quarter ending June 1848, no less than 322 casuals were under medical treatment, either in the workhouse of the Wandsworth and Clapham union or at the London Fever Hospital."UKhistorical

4. (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.Examples: "The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it."derogatoryinformal

5. (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.Examples: "Casuals outnumbered regulars in the art-house audience two to one."; "Most often, when a series is marketed toward casuals, the loyals feel that their interests and needs are not being met."; "Treating a gay relationship as a puzzle that must be pursued by the clever viewers and hidden from “casuals” until a narrative reveal at the eleventh hour seems antithetical to the idea of normalized representation that TJLCers claim as the main reason they want Johnlock to be canon, […]"slang

6. (British, dated) A tramp.Examples: "I was a boy in 1922 or 1923, when buses first started to run between the village and the town; there were tramps, casuals as they were called; the whole pattern of my boyhood was knit into a very loaded atmosphere of human character."Britishdated