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slacked

slacked adjective: dressed in slacks. Also the simple past and past participle of slack.

Adjective

slacked (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in slacks.
    • “I’ll never forget the day the real-estate man called to tell me this place was for sale!” Carole screamed, pulling her slacked legs up under her chin, locking her arms around them.1940 October, Adele Whitely Fletcher, “How Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Live”, in Ruth Waterbury, editor, Photoplay, volume LIV, number 10, Chicago, Ill.: Macfadden Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
    • It has moved from Negro slavery to a most inclusive theoretical equality before the law; from the seclusion and limitation of women to women’s suffrage and to the slacked woman-worker in factories.1946 November 1, Lee James Beynon, “Religious Books Are an Aid to Postwar Thinking”, in Library Journal, volume 71, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1520–1521

Also used as

slacked is also the simple past and past participle of slack.

Origin of slacked

From slack (attributive form of slacks) + -ed (“having”).

From slack (verb) + -ed.

Words formed from slacked

Phrases with slacked

Questions about slacked

What does slacked mean?
Slacked means dressed in slacks.
What part of speech is slacked?
Slacked is an adjective.

Words near slacked in the dictionary

  1. slackards
  2. slackass
  3. slackcom
  4. slackcoms
  5. slackcountry
  6. slacked
  7. slacked off
  8. slacked up
  9. slacken
  10. slacken off
  11. slackened

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