Definitions for slacks

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IPA: /slæks/

Slacks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in slacks (acklss).

Definitions for slacks

noun

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

First recorded in 1815-25; slack¹ + -s³

Examples for slacks

Sitting at the desk was a man in his mid- to late 40s, balding, conventionally dressed in slacks and an Oxford shirt, no tie.

The slacks and sport coat that she wore accentuated the fact that she was a woman.

That evening they changed for dinner, Tom lending a pair of slacks to his brother.

Awkwardly, the girl tried to hide it in a fold of her slacks.

The Hindu boy was dressed in Western clothes, slacks and a sports jacket.

Like himself, Sophia was garbed in a loose jumper and slacks.

In a tucked-in black t-shirt and slacks, the seemingly average Joe shimmied and shaked to the bassline.

The corollary being, if she slacks off, even a teensy bit, anything that goes wrong is her fault.

Some one slacks off the lee braces and sings out 'Haul away!'

There were the bodies of fourteen men, dressed in bloodied djellabahs or in shirts and slacks.