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Definition of Slack off
1. Verb. Become less in amount or intensity. "The rain let up after a few hours"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen
Derivative terms: Abatement, Letup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slack Off
Literary usage of Slack off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1890)
"Hold out a profitable thing and popular education will catch on quite freely,
but talk of things beautiful and refined and trade will slack off perceptibly. ..."
2. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1880)
"... it shall and may be lawful for the harbour-master to direct and require the
master of any such vessel as aforesaid to slack off the same, and in case of ..."
3. Manual of Heavy Artillery Service: For the Use of the Army and Militia of by John Caldwell Tidball (1891)
"slack off. Nos. i and 2 slack off the fall slowly, and the piece is lowered to
its position on the ground or skidded. To Mount a Siege-Gun. ..."
4. The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the United States Army by United States Army. Ordnance Dept (1862)
"slack off the fall slowly, and let the trunnions descend into their holes.
Put on the cap-squares. REMARK.—The piece may be slung with a short piece of rope ..."
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