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Slack (noun)
Small coal; coal dust.
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Slack (noun)
A valley, or small, shallow dell.
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Slack (noun)
The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
“the slack of a rope or of a sail”
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Slack (noun)
A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
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Slack (adjective)
Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
“a slack rope”
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Slack (adjective)
Weak; not holding fast.
“a slack hand”
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Slack (adjective)
Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
“slack in duty or service”
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Slack (adjective)
Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
“Business is slack.”
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Slack (adjective)
vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music
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Slack (adverb)
Slackly.
“slack dried hops”
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Slack (verb)
To slacken.
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Slack (verb)
To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
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Slack (verb)
to procrastinate; to be lazy
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Slack (verb)
to refuse to exert effort
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Slack (verb)
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
“Lime slacks.”
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Lack (noun)
A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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Lack (noun)
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
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Lack (verb)
To be without, to need, to require.
“My life lacks excitement.”
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Lack (verb)
To be short (of or for something).
“He’ll never lack for company while he’s got all that money.”
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Lack (verb)
To be in want.
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Lack (verb)
To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
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Slack (adjective)
not taut or held tightly in position; loose
“a slack rope”
“her mouth went slack”
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Slack (adjective)
(of business or trade) characterized by a lack of work or activity; quiet
“business was rather slack”
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Slack (adjective)
slow or sluggish
“they were working at a slack pace”
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Slack (adjective)
having or showing laziness or negligence
“slack accounting procedures”
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Slack (adjective)
lewd
“the veteran king of slack chat”
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Slack (adjective)
having many sexual encounters or relationships (typically used of a woman).
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Slack (adjective)
(of a tide) neither ebbing nor flowing
“soon the water will become slack, and the tide will turn”
“slack tides”
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Slack (noun)
the part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part
“I picked up the rod and wound in the slack”
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Slack (noun)
casual trousers
“he put on a grey shirt and loose cotton slacks”
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Slack (noun)
a spell of inactivity or laziness
“he slept deeply, refreshed by a little slack in the daily routine”
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Slack (noun)
coal dust or small pieces of coal
“the fire was stoked with a mixture of slack and cement”
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Slack (verb)
loosen (something, especially a rope)
“slacking the outhaul allows you to adjust the sail”
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Slack (verb)
decrease or reduce in intensity, quantity, or speed
“the horse slacked his pace”
“the flow of blood slacked off”
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Slack (verb)
work slowly or lazily
“she ticked off her girls if they were slacking”
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Slack (verb)
slake (lime)
“150 sacks of lime were slacked by the inrushing water”