slack off

1. to taper off; to reduce gradually. Business tends to slack off during the winter months. The storms begin to slack off in April.

2. [for someone] to become lazy or inefficient. Near the end of the school year, Sally began to slack off, and her grades showed it. John got fired for slacking off during the busy season.

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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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slack off

Decrease in activity or intensity, as in If business ever slacks off we can go on vacation, or When the project fell behind schedule again, she thought we were slacking off. [Second half of 1800s]

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slack off

1. To decrease in activity or intensity: Tourism on Cape Cod usually slacks off around September.

2. To evade work; shirk: High school seniors tend to slack off once they get accepted to college.

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Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Suzu	soo-zoo	Japanese
Iosephus	-	Late Roman
Anneka	-	English (Rare)
Nomusa	-	Southern African, Ndebele
Iair	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Shripati	-	Hinduism