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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
slack .
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Examples
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Here, lime water will refer to calcium hydroxide which is also known as slacked lime
Chapter 15 1982
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We lost some games, wasn't playing well, and overall, our defense kind of slacked off.
Rashard Lewis ready to move forward Tarik El-Bashir 2010
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December is not exactly last month, but I kind of slacked lately, you know…
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December is not exactly last month, but I kind of slacked lately, you know…
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But this is where you start to wonder whether everybody kind of slacked off a little bit when Jobs, a notorious tyrant and perfectionist, wasn't around to put the fear of God into them.
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Of course, the surprise visit invariably happened just at the moment when the girls had "slacked," whereupon fright being added to ignorance, they would make such a poor display that they themselves were covered with confusion and their instructor with mortification.
Etheldreda the Ready A School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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But I think I kind of slacked a little bit, because I realized from my past two seasons that it's not all about physical ability.
Inside TV Blog Kelly Woo 2010
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I hopeyour readings are good Mine are so. so kind of slacked off a little.
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"Last year, I kind of slacked off," said Tyler Van Cleave, a freshman in the academy.
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But once they made a run I thought the effort kind of slacked off.
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