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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



... days after, Neewak sent greeting and invitation to his igloo. Moosu went, but I sat alone, with the song of the still in my ears, and the air thick with the shaman's tobacco; for trade was slack that night, and no one dropped in but Angeit, a young hunter that had faith in me. Later, Moosu came back, his speech thick with chuckling and ...
— The Faith of Men • Jack London
... best quality of baked brick is of a yellowish-white tint, and very much resembles our Stourbridge or fire brick; another kind, extremely hard, but brittle, is of a blackish blue; a third, the coarsest of all, is slack-dried, and of a pale red. The earliest baked bricks are of this last color. The sun-dried bricks have even more variety of size than the baked ones. They are sometimes as large as 16 inches square and seven inches thick, sometimes as small as six inches ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea • George Rawlinson
... that mud that the river leaves when it rises—'Gumbo' the people call it. Some fellow found by accident that it became red flint when fired, and was making a fortune selling it to the railroad." To burn it, he used the slack coal from the Jonesburg mines nearby, which until then had also been waste. I put a handful of the stuff in my pocket; and, after the conductor left us, I turned the whole enterprise over to the Goodwin part. When the ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura • Augustus Thomas
... got downstairs, and out into the street; but the doctor was so close at his heels, and being in foot the nimbler of the two, he soon overtook him, and laid hold of him, as he would have done on either Broughton or Slack ...
— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding
... girl is a disgrace sitting on the floor the way she is! If I had her for a while I'd put betterment on her. No one that was under me ever grew slack! ...
— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory


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