Slack is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLACK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to slacken
• loosen (something, especially a rope)
• decrease or reduce in intensity, quantity, or speed
• work slowly or lazily
• slake (lime)
• Slackly; as, slack dried hops.
• avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
• be inattentive to, or neglect
• release tension on
• make less active or fast
• become slow or slower
• make less active or intense
• become less in amount or intensity
• cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
NOUN:
• the part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part
• casual trousers
• a spell of inactivity or laziness
• coal dust or small pieces of coal
• Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
• A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
• dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
• a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
• a stretch of water without current or movement
• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
• the quality of being loose (not taut)
• a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
ADJECTIVE:
• not tight or taut
• not taut or held tightly in position; loose
• (of business or trade) characterized by a lack of work or activity; quiet
• slow or sluggish
• having or showing laziness or negligence
• lewd
• (typically of a woman) promiscuous.
• (of a tide) neither ebbing nor flowing
• Alt. of Slacken
• not tense or taut
• flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
• lacking in rigor or strictness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as slake

Words related to SLACK

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How to use SLACK in a sentence

• His head hurt and he felt very dull and slack, but he slept and when he woke bright sunshine streamed into the standing car and he saw the train had stopped at Winnipeg.
• The jar shook the other, his grasp got slack, and Lister saw that for a moment the advantage was his.
• When thou hast vowed a vow unto the LORD thy God, see thou be not slack to pay it.
• For several reasons trade was not what it had been, even for the slack season of summer it was poor.
• If this be not done, the bolts will be sure to get slack at sea, and all the floats on the weather side may be washed off.
• He was Latin and dangerous to look at, for all the big white Anglo-Saxon teeth, the slow, slack, Western American carriage, the guarded and amused expression of the golden eyes.
• I am, SIR, Your most obliged humble Servant, Samuel Slack.
• All my sketches on those plaster walls form part of a slack heap, surrounded by a moat.
• When this had been done, as much of the slack was taken up as possible, and the wreck was connected with the beach with a kind of suspension bridge.
• Such wind as there was came in little short puffs, and the canvas either drew full or was absolutely slack.
• For 110 tons of salt cake charged there are also used about 100 tons of lime mud and limestone and 55 tons of mixing slack.
• Then, when it was round, it would always go slack before I could get it tied up tightly.
• Just once Pasquale rolled half over before his body went slack and motionless.
• The first great wave that came flung a yard or so of slack amongst them.
• Wherever the shore bends, the current, when strong, keeps straight on across the slack water till it hits the bend.
• When oats are in there will be slack time on the farm, and the farmers will seriously think of doing the hundred things that they have let slide during the summer.
• The slack gray face worked convulsively, the white lips moved, the hands were gripped close to his sides as though to run a race.
• Foot by foot his eyes followed its slack outline across the ground.
• But there he stood, the pack-rope slack in his hand, staring stupidly.
• When the maid is ignorant, untrained, and, as is so often the case, slack, wasteful, and inefficient, the situation is, in all conscience, bad enough.
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• Reel in now as swiftly as possible, or else he will get a slack on the line and escape.
• For Rene had been a good friend to many of them, and had admitted on slack nights many a weary man who had no ticket.
• The officer shook his head and refused, but he allowed some of his soldiers to slack the cords on one side, whereby Gulliver was able to feel more comfortable.
• Monotonous going over the words of a poem or the list of books of the Bible with wandering or slack attention will fail of results.

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