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Definition of slack verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

slack

verb
 
/slæk/
 
/slæk/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they slack
 
/slæk/
 
/slæk/
he / she / it slacks
 
/slæks/
 
/slæks/
past simple slacked
 
/slækt/
 
/slækt/
past participle slacked
 
/slækt/
 
/slækt/
-ing form slacking
 
/ˈslækɪŋ/
 
/ˈslækɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. to work less hard than you usually do or should do
    Word Originverb Old English slæc ‘inclined to be lazy, unhurried’, of Germanic origin; related to Latin laxus ‘loose’.
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adverb
 
 
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