slack

Converse of object

• wear: He wears elderly golf slacks; she in a brown, old-lady skirt.
• go: They can go slack then come under tension without warning.
• leave: However, we were flying out first thing, which left no slack for the rescue mission.
• grow: Was it when you grew slack in your attendance at the place of worship?

Adjective modifier

• humid: Humid dune slacks with an interesting flora are well-developed in the northern section where they often form marshy areas or pools.
• damp: There maybe several parallel ridges of old dunes separated by low-lying damp slacks.
• wet: Wet slack, with the water table never more than 1m ( 3 ' ) below the surface.
• enough: Other systems use an open ended turning block mounted on the deck - see figure 1 - to generate enough slack.
• little: Fragment - " Trapped " I realize my blogging's been a little slack of late.
• black: Bruno arrives, a loose-fitting shirt hanging on his still considerable frame outside black slacks.

Modifies a noun

• adjuster: All of the above-named undertakings were engaged in the supply of the MEI brand of automatic slack adjuster.
• tide: The plan was for the majority of the fleets Solent based boats, to take advantage of the slack tide off the Needles.
• vegetation: North Northumberland Dunes Northumberland North Northumberland Dunes represents a rare example of well-developed dune slack vegetation on the east coast of England.
• dive: The area is swept by strong tidal currents making this site a slack water dive.
• rope: You are not far above the ground and with slack rope and spring - a collision with the uneven rocky floor is not unlikely.
• water: Even heading through at slack water there is always a sense of menace!

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: Waiting in the bottom chamber for the flood tide to slack off.

Preposition: in

• economy: Obviously a time could come when there is sufficient slack in the economy on any basis and some stimulus might be in order.

Noun used with modifier

• dune: Willow or birch dominates scrub on wetter dune slack areas.
• bit: Things were a bit slack in those days - there was a war to win!