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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



... Serena," he cried. "If it was a mistake it's one that can be straightened out in two shakes of slack jib sheet. You stay here and rest easy. I'll be back ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... moved outdoors every spring and summer and lived the wholesome life of the outdoors for three or four months! We could not have "slack times." ...
— My Life and Work • Henry Ford
... Ambassador and half the Embassy staff were on leave in England. As matters were very slack just then, the Charge d'Affaires and the Second Secretary had gone to Finland for four days' fishing, leaving me in charge of the Embassy, with an Attache to help me. My servant came to me early one morning as I ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... talk to you because they don't like to be rude. They send you white feathers instead. But they talk to me. 'Why isn't Marmaduke in khaki?' 'Why isn't Doggie fighting?' 'I wonder how you can allow him to slack about like that!'—I've had a pretty rough time fighting your battles, I can tell you, and I deserve some credit. I want sympathy just as much ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... the brake, McGonnigle went on humorously, gesticulating spaciously while the slack of the lines swung ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart


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