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Is slack a Scrabble word?

Yes, slack is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of slack?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.Examples: "the slack of a rope or of a sail"; "take in the slack"uncountable

2. (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.Examples: "The "slacks" I have mentioned are fresh-water pools which extend just inside the outer sandhills. Being mostly dry in summer, the shore fowl love to breed there. Peewits nest on their banks, and the long grasses and sand willow[…]"; "... in that quarter lay the great slack of the Watch Hill, the yellow slack that feeds the Blackburn, and in which horse and rider might readily disappear for ever."; "Modern "moonpreneurs" now hijack tidal slacks to power server farms in Nova Scotia barns, mining Bitcoin during low tides when electricity costs crater."Synonyms: sloughcountable

3. (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.Examples: "The counselor is directed to give his client "free attention," or "slack," performing a kind of vigil, a version of Carl Rogers's "unconditional positive regard.""; "We have apparently been doing this all our lives, since we were first distressed. This collection of ancient habits seems to be "energized" by the presence, or even the promise, of "slack" or free attention from any person in the situation […]"uncountable

adj (English)

1. (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.Examples: "a slack rope"

2. (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.CaribbeanJamaicaslang

3. (linguistics) Lax.

verb (English)

1. (ambitransitive) To slacken.Examples: "I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betraies his Maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovv vvhat my boy hath don, Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a Tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out."; "In this business of growing rich, poor men […] should slack their pace."ambitransitive

2. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.Examples: "Ne did ſhe let dull ſleepe once to relent, / Nor wearineſſe to ſlack her haſt, but fled / Euer alike,[…]."obsolete

noun (English)

1. (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.Examples: "This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted."; "The train runs slowly with frequent slacks for bridge and culvert repairs. At one point occurs the changeover from left- to right-hand running."; "A 40 m.p.h. slack at West Ruislip, quickly followed by a 30 m.p.h. slack at Gerrards Cross, increased our lateness to four minutes at High Wycombe."

noun (English)

1. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.Examples: "Red Ringan sped, and the spearmen led, Up Goranberry Slack; Aye, many a wight, unmatched in fight, Who never more came back. And bloody set the westering sun, And bloody rose he up; […]"; ""I see some folk coming through the slack yonder, […]""; "[…] southward, by the slack of the hill (2,500 feet), west of Ferrowie, (2,628 feet), on the County boundary, and descending by the Capel-burn to the South Esk,[…]"countable

noun (English)

1. (mining) Small coal; coal dust.Examples: "One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]"; "It had rather a woolly and uneven beat and was inclined to prime, but there was no trouble with steaming even though the tender contained mostly small slack and dust."Synonyms: culmuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "slack"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "slack"?

Scrabble
11 points
S1
L1
A1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
13 points
S1
L2
A1
C4
K5

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