slack: ความหมายและคำอธิบายความหมาย

Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace.

Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business.

Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. See Synonyms at loose.

Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip.

Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. See Synonyms at negligent.

Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds.

Linguistics Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.

To make slower or looser; slacken.

To be careless or remiss in doing: slack one's duty.

To slake (lime).

To be or become slack.

To evade work; shirk.

A loose part, as of a rope or sail.

A lack of tension; looseness.

A period of little activity; a lull.

A cessation of movement in a current of air or water.

An area of still water.

Unused capacity: still some slack in the economy.

Casual trousers that are not part of a suit.

In a slack manner: a banner hanging slack.

slack off To decrease in activity or intensity.

cut Slang To make an allowance for (someone), as in allowing more time to finish something.

A mixture of coal fragments, coal dust, and dirt that remains after screening coal.

Chiefly British A small dell or hollow.

Chiefly British A bog; a morass.