slack water

What does slack water mean?

slack water means "a stretch of water without current or movement". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for slack water?

Close synonyms include slack, slack tide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slack water a common word?

slack water is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slack water come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.