Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive, rare To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.

Etymologies

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From for- +‎ slack.

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