Slack

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

1
A surname.
2
A place in England: A hamlet in Ashover parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3362).
3
A place in England: A hamlet in Heptonstall parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD9828).
4
A place in England: A hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, near Outlane, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0817).
5
A real-time collaboration app and platform launched in 2013.
On Slack, the employees of Strategic Programming chattered about metadata tagging issues.

Etymology

* As an English and Dutch surname, from the adjective slack. * Also as an English surname, from the noun slack (“shallow valley”). * Possibly also a Slovene surname Americanized from slak (“bindweed”), from Proto-Slavic *sъvolkъ. * The name of the software is an acronym of Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge.

Forms

plural: Slacks

Skype · A telecommunications application by Skype Technologies.slab · A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is…slack · The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon…

Slack · A surname.

slade · A hillside.Slade · A surname.slag · Waste material from a mine.

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