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Slacking

noun
1.
The evasion of work or duty.  Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering.


Slack

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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"Slacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cut-Through a little ways, and then come about, and back he comes again, never slacking speed a mite, and running close to the shoal as he could shave, and all the time going through the bloodiest kind of pantomimes. And past he goes, to wheel 'round and commence ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln


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