verb. To shirk duty

verb. British military language: avoid work

"The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ..."

scrimshanker  

fiddle  goldbrick  shirk  shrink from  

scrimshaw