Crossword-Solution: SLACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slack | n. | Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. |
| Slack | n. | A valley, or small, shallow dell. |
| Slack | superl. | Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. |
| Slack | superl. | Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. |
| Slack | superl. | Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. |
| Slack | superl. | Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. |
| Slack | adv. | Slackly; as, slack dried hops. |
| Slack | n. | The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. |
| Slack | a. | Alt. of Slacken |
| Slack | v. t. | Alt. of Slacken |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SLACK | anagram | CALKS, LACKS |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with SLACK (5)
The transportation sector and government services declined slightly due to slack early-1990 transits through the Panama Canal, lower oil pipeline flowthrough, and Panama City's budget cuts.
The springs there were wound so tight that it would be a long while before there was any slack in them.
Western Germany's growth in 1991 slowed to 3.1% - the lowest rate since 1987 - because of slack world growth and higher interest rates and taxes required by the unification process.
When that comes, think not thou to find me slack On my part aught endeavouring, or to need Thy politic maxims, or that cumbersome 400 Luggage of war there shewn me—argument Of human weakness rather than of strength.
When he should stoop over me I had but to grasp his throat with one hand and strike him a terrific blow with the slack of my chain, which I gripped firmly in my right hand for the purpose.
Quotes with SLACK (3)
Nonetheless, when it finally ended and the hairdressers left and Tess insisted upon pulling her to the mirror, Fire saw, and understood, that everyone had done the job well. The dress, deep shimmering purple and utterly simple in design, was so beautifully-cut and so clingy and well-fitting that Fire felt slightly naked. And her hair. She couldn’t follow what they’d done with her hair, braids thin as threads in some places, looped and wound through the thick sections that fel…
Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet she existed thus, without memory or history, only because her past was too bleak to think of and her future too terrible to contemplate; she was the broken blossom of the present tense.
NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 72 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).