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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of stack.

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Examples

  • Billingsley, of course, is best remembered for uttering the line, Cut me som 'slac' jak!

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Billingsley, of course, is best remembered for uttering the line, Cut me som 'slac' jak!

    Leave It to Beaver's Mom to Lie About Her Age 2005

  • I've taught at a pretty wide range of places: grad school uni where everyone shat ice cream, slacker slac, swotty slac, and my current institution, a diverse, proletarian place that I suspect is much like the big urban institution that employed you as a lecturer.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2010

  • For accounts of the struggle to extend the Living Wage to Hopkins from the point of view of the Student-Labor Action Coalition and its allies, see: slac. members.easyspace.com.

    Footnotes 2002

  • I grant that many things have changed and it is not likely that "france" is going to supplant any brief but timely discovery and take over the world with a higgs bomb, but the issue is more than that, slac barely got an extension to continue their failed search for higgs, even though they mumbled about a possible shadow.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Personally, I think that if I were to receive a video from someone, say, who taught in such a way (lecture/dramatic monologue) that he/she could guarantee student faces wouldn't appear in the video (e.g., heaven forbid a discussion actually break out, luring students into turning their heads away from the instructor to watch their peers speak!), I/we wouldn't hire the person here (slac).

    Wired Campus 2010

  • Personally, I think that if I were to receive a video from someone, say, who taught in such a way (lecture/dramatic monologue) that he/she could guarantee student faces wouldn't appear in the video (e.g., heaven forbid a discussion actually break out, luring students into turning their heads away from the instructor to watch their peers speak!), I/we wouldn't hire the person here (slac).

    Wired Campus 2010

  • Personally, I think that if I were to receive a video from someone, say, who taught in such a way (lecture/dramatic monologue) that he/she could guarantee student faces wouldn't appear in the video (e.g., heaven forbid a discussion actually break out, luring students into turning their heads away from the instructor to watch their peers speak!), I/we wouldn't hire the person here (slac).

    Wired Campus 2010

  • It sounds a hell of a lot like mine, as does Larryc's description of his last job, except that I'm at a recognizably-named slac which people still view as a "first job" even though, I suspect, it would be a dream job compared to many posts out there.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • Personally, I think that if I were to receive a video from someone, say, who taught in such a way (lecture/dramatic monologue) that he/she could guarantee student faces wouldn't appear in the video (e.g., heaven forbid a discussion actually break out, luring students into turning their heads away from the instructor to watch their peers speak!), I/we wouldn't hire the person here (slac).

    Wired Campus 2010

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