Word Meaning

Meaning of "slack" and the crossword clue

- dissolute
- Ease off
- Lazy and careless
- Limp
- Loose
- 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