Meanings
slacked1
- not comparableDressed in slacks.
[Y]oung and old, wives, mothers, fathers meet in promenade, determined to exact each ounce of pleasure from the teeming street, toddlers in harness, women bloused and slacked, […]
1995, Robin Skelton, “Perugia: A Hallowe’en Triptych”, in The Edge of Time: Poems and Translations, Vancouver, B.C.: Ronsdale/Cacanadadada, →ISBN, page 982 more examples
“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 31, column 2It 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
slacked2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of slack
Origin
slacked · adjective
From slack (attributive form of slacks) + -ed (“having”).
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