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slack off

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slack off
1. to work less hard than is usual or necessary. Workers tend to slack off on Mondays and Fridays.
2. to become less severe or extreme. If this rain would slack off, we could finish the work outside.
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But this afternoon--perhaps on account of music--he perceived that one must slack off occasionally, or what is the good of being alive?
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
A veer in the wind induced them to slack off sheets, and five minutes afterward a sudden veer from the opposite quarter caught all three schooners aback, and those on shore could see the boom-tackles being slacked away or cast off on the jump.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
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