slack up
Example Sentences
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“Everybody needs to pick up the slack up front, starting with us,” left tackle Joe Noteboom said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2022
“It didn’t slack up at all,” he said.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2021
He tied one end of a hawser to a pillar and passed the other about the roundhouse top, taking the slack up, so that no one’s toes could touch the ground.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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"Might as well slack up and wait for Henry."
From On the Trail of Pontiac by Stratemeyer, Edward
"I shall be a tiltin' myself, and on a revolution too," said Mr. P., "if this confounded horse don't slack up."
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 by Various