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Meanings of slack up in English

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Make less active or fast.

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        Usage of slack up in English
        1
        See here, Nelson, I can't have this work slack up.
        The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm
        2
        Business is liable to slack up just when you think it's going along all right.
        White Ashes
        3
        I'll let her run at this rate for a while, and then we'll slack up.
        Five Thousand Miles Underground; Or, the Mystery of the Centre o...
        4
        The moment you slack up on them is the moment they slack up in their work.
        Michael, Brother of Jerry
        5
        The work didn't slack up none.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        6
        Going with her, it's too easy to slack up, let your mind wander and let the river take you.
        The Valley of Horses
        7
        You haven't got the great Army man to beat, and, just for that reason, you slack up on your efforts.
        Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis: Headed for Graduation an...
        8
        One of the gentlemen hailed him in German with the request to slack up a little and they would come off in a boat.
        The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
        9
        The driver, with a surprised look on his face, was slacking up.
        Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on th...
        10
        That work was slacking up so he'd decided on a ten per cent.
        Still Jim
        11
        At that the horses slacked up a bit.
        St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, ...
        12
        The indicator slacked up, fluttered, stopped dead.
        The U-boat hunters
        13
        "We're way back now, and don't seem to be slacking up, either."
        The Runaway Skyscraper
        14
        I had crossed it once and knew that it was weak and shaky, and I slacked up and watched him.
        The Port of Missing Men
        15
        Slack up, if you please, and let me have all the line you can, without casting off from your body.
        The Two Admirals
        16
        ' Slack up your grip in my dress shirt,' says Uncle Emsley, 'and I'll tell you.
        Heart of the West
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