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Slack   /slæk/   Listen
Slack

noun
1.
Dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve.
2.
A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality.  Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump.  "A gradual slack in output" , "A drop-off in attendance" , "A falloff in quality"
3.
A stretch of water without current or movement.  Synonym: slack water.
4.
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.  Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, quagmire.
5.
The quality of being loose (not taut).  Synonym: slackness.
6.
A cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely.
adjective
(compar. slacker; superl. slackest)
1.
Not tense or taut.  Synonym: loose.  "Slack and wrinkled skin" , "Slack sails" , "A slack rope"
2.
Flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide.
3.
Lacking in rigor or strictness.  Synonym: lax.  "Lax in attending classes" , "Slack in maintaining discipline"
verb
1.
Avoid responsibilities and work, be idle.
2.
Be inattentive to, or neglect.
3.
Release tension on.
4.
Make less active or fast.  Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken.  "Don't relax your efforts now"
5.
Become slow or slower.  Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up.
6.
Make less active or intense.  Synonyms: abate, slake.
7.
Become less in amount or intensity.  Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off.  "The rain let up after a few hours"
8.
Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water.  Synonym: slake.



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"Slack" Quotes from Famous Books



... fast with plenty of slack to the rope in case the tide should rise high, he got out and then he and Percival ascended the first slope, helping Jesse ...
— The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island • Cyril Burleigh
... great deed in this world of ours! Unheard of the pretence is. It plainly threatens the Great Powers; Is fatal in all senses. A just deed in the world! Call out The rifles! ... be not slack about The National Defences.' ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... the rope too much," answered the Navajo. "There will be places where you may have to do that. It will be safe to do so for Kitoni will take in all slack, but it will be better if you ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... nine o'clock, he was shifting from one foot to the other before the cashier's counter in the restaurant. From the little window inclosure came the clicking of typewriter keys, a little more spirited than before. Hiram had strategically chosen the slack business hour of the morning. He had eaten breakfast in a cheaper restaurant, two blocks down the street. He had not seen Tweet. He had been walking about the streets ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... speed until within range, when with that wonderful dexterity no other race has quite equalled, each pushed his bent right knee into the slack of the hair rope, seized bridle and horse's mane in the left hand, curled his left heel tightly into the horse's flank, and dropped down on the animal's right side, leaving only a hand and a foot in ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson


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