slack

IPA: sɫˈæk

(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
(uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
(rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
(countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
(mining) Small coal; coal dust.
A surname.

(normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
Weak; not holding fast.
Moderate in some capacity.
Moderately warm.
Moderate in speed.
Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
Excess; surplus to requirements.
(slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
(linguistics) Lax.

Examples of "slack" in Sentences

His eyes were dark and blank, his expression slack.
The forenoon being what he called his slack time he found the earlier part of it most profitably used for sleep.
Casting up, and not too far out, stripping in slack as the line moves back towards you will bet you the deepest.
The argument that continued monetary slack is necessary to add millions more jobs scares those of us who are skeptical about the wisdom of Keynesian micromanagement in general.
About ten minutes or so, those tugs, five tugs in all, were pulling with all their might to try and get this old gray lady off of Pier 86 and finally, as we stood on the flight deck, there was movement, very slow at first, and then she just took off and she was traveling faster than I think they expected and we ended up just sitting off of the Bayone wet dock for about three hours waiting for what they call slack to decrease or lower tide to come in so the ship could be controlled better and brought right into this dock that we are obviously just now moving into.