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adjective

Slack adj. (compar. slacker; superl. slackest)

Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.

Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.

Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness."

Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. "With slack pace."

Slack in stays (Naut.), slow in going about, as a ship.

Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.

Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams.

Synonyms: Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull.

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"Slacker" Quotes from Famous Books

... actor who complains that his manager forbids him to wear his armlet on the stage. The sympathies of the audience might be entirely deranged by the discovery that the elderly villain was an attested patriot while the young and beautiful hero was either ineligible or a slacker. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 • Various

... heard of the recall of Alcibiades and, already distrustful of Tissaphernes, now became far more disgusted with him than ever. Indeed after their refusal to go out and give battle to the Athenians when they appeared before Miletus, Tissaphernes had grown slacker than ever in his payments; and even before this, on account of Alcibiades, his unpopularity had been on the increase. Gathering together, just as before, the soldiers and some persons of consideration besides the soldiery began to reckon up how they had never yet received ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

... other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, 10 Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily ...

— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

... hours per day, with rests for meals, is the average time spent on the estate. Wages are paid once a month, and a whole holiday follows pay-day, when the stores in town are visited for needful supplies. Other holidays are not infrequent, and between crops the slacker days give ample time for the cultivation ...

— The Food of the Gods - A Popular Account of Cocoa • Brandon Head

... for us here than there was in Michigan, and now we've got our foot down here we're not going back again," he said. "That's about all there is to it. But when our time comes, the other men aren't going to find us slacker than the Dutchman." ...

— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

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