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Definition of Slack |
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Slack
Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. A valley, or small, shallow dell. 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. Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. Slackly; as, slack dried hops. The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. Alt. of Slacken Alt. of Slacken Related Definitions: Also, Alt, Anything, As, Backward, Business, Care, Coal, Culm, Dell, Diligence, Drawn, Dried, Due, Dust, Duty, Eager, Earnest, Easy, Extended, Fast, Firmly, Hand, Hard, Having, Holding, In, Is, It, Lax, Loose, Moderate, No, Not, Of, Or, Part, Pressing, Rapid, Remiss, Rope, Sail, Service, Shallow, Slack, Slacken, Slackly, Slow, Small, Strain, Tense, That, The, Upon, Using, Valley, Violent, Weak |
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Slack Quotations
WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks. Tom Brady At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. Peter Stone The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock. Joshua Homme In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Robert Stevenson My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front! Sarojini Naidu |
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Slack Translations
slack in German is schlaff, lose, flau slack in Italian is lasco, floscio slack in Spanish is languido, flojera slack in Swedish is loj, slapp, slak |
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