# adjective. - not taut or held tightly in position; loose. * a slack rope - (of business) characterized by a lack of work or activity; quiet. * business was rather slack - having or showing laziness or negligence. * slack accounting procedures - (of a tide) neither ebbing nor flowing. * soon the water will become slack, and the tide will turn
# noun. - the part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part. * I picked up the rod and wound in the slack - a spell of inactivity or laziness. * he slept deeply, refreshed by a little slack in the daily routine - casual trousers. * he put on a gray shirt and loose cotton slacks - coal dust or small pieces of coal. * the fire was stoked with a mixture of slack and cement
# verb. - loosen (something, especially a rope). * slacking the outhaul allows you to adjust the sail - decrease or reduce in intensity, quantity, or speed. * the flow of blood slacked off - slake (lime). * 150 sacks of lime were slacked by the inrushing water
# adverb. - loosely. * their heads were hanging slack in attitudes of despair
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