slacks
s laks
- n (usually in the plural) pants for casual wear
- n dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- n a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- n a stretch of water without current or movement
- n a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- n the quality of being loose (not taut)
- n a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- v avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- v be inattentive to, or neglect
He slacks his attention - v release tension on
- v make less active or fast
- v become slow or slower
- v make less active or intense
- v become less in amount or intensity
- v cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- Scores and scores of bodies hundreds of bodieswearing red dresses, blue T shirts, green blouses, pink slacks, children's polka-dotted jumpers.
- It began on the beaches and the golf courses, with multicolored blazers, vari-patterned shirts, brick-red slacks, Bermuda shorts, and hats and caps that looked as if they had .
- The right of a girl to wear slacks to school last week involved the Lord Chief Justice and all Britain in defining the subtle frontier between liberty and the law.