Definitions for Slack

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Slack slack

Spelling: [slak]

IPA: /slæk/

Slack is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Slack (ackls).

Definitions for Slack

noun

1. a slack condition or part.
2. the part of a rope, sail, or the like, that hangs loose, without strain upon it.
3. a decrease in activity, as in business or work:
4. a period of decreased activity.
5. Geography. a cessation in a strong flow, as of a current at its turn.
6. a depression between hills, in a hillside, or in the land surface.
7. Prosody. (in sprung rhythm) the unaccented syllable or syllables.
8. British Dialect. a morass; marshy ground; a hollow or dell with soft, wet ground at the bottom.
9. the fine screenings of coal.

Idioms

1. take up the slack, to pull in or make taut a loose section of a rope, line, wire, etc.: to provide or compensate for something that is missing or incomplete:

adverb

1. in a slack manner.

adjective

1. not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose:
2. negligent; careless; remiss:
3. slow, sluggish, or indolent:
4. not active or busy; dull; not brisk:
5. moving very slowly, as the tide, wind, or water.
6. weak; lax.
7. Nautical. easy (def 15a).

verb (used with object)

1. to be remiss in respect to (some matter, duty, right, etc.); shirk; leave undone:
2. to make or allow to become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.; relax (efforts, labor, speed, etc.); lessen; moderate (often followed by up).
3. to make loose, or less tense or taut, as a rope; loosen (often followed by off or out).
4. to slake (lime).

verb (used without object)

1. to be remiss; shirk one's duty or part.
2. to become less active, vigorous, rapid, etc. (often followed by up):
3. to become less tense or taut, as a rope; to ease off.
4. to become slaked, as lime.

Origin of Slack

before 900; Middle English slac (adj.), Old English sleac, slæc; cognate with Old Norse slakr, Old High German slach, Latin laxus lax

Examples for Slack

Too rash Love in its choice, paid you so largely service so slack!

Taut, now, the quivering lines; now slack; and so, let her go!

To the contrary: since the 2011 ouster of Gaddafi, the world has cut Libya a lot of slack.

But other Sunbelt locales, notably Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma have picked up much of the slack.

Other women can often be the worst at cutting any slack towards the love interest in a sex scandal.

Ayllon had the necklace with him in the slack of his doublet.

He knew I was a Chicago guy, and he cut me absolutely no slack.

The coves and hollows were better wooded and there were some stretches of slack water.

The second glitch came a few hours after that, when some of the cables used to pull the ship upright started to slack.

I was plenty busy taking in slack, so I did not notice Dick.