slacked
English
Etymology 1
From slack (attributive form of slacks) + -ed (“having”).
Adjective
slacked (not comparable)
- (dated) Dressed in slacks.
- 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 2:
- “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.
- 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:
- It 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.
- 1995, Robin Skelton, “Perugia: A Hallowe’en Triptych”, in The Edge of Time: Poems and Translations, Vancouver, B.C.: Ronsdale/Cacanadadada, →ISBN, page 98:
- [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, […]
Etymology 2
Adjective
slacked (not comparable)
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Derived terms
Verb
slacked
- simple past and past participle of slack