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slack
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slack1
1. 
a. a patch of water without current
b. a slackening of a current
2. Prosody (in sprung rhythm) the unstressed syllable or syllables
slack2
small pieces of coal with a high ash content
1.(operating system)slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information.
2.(jargon)slack - In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius, a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness.

Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "Unix has no slack".

See ha ha only serious.
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Picking up the slack is Route66 Classic Grill, a few blocks off campus.
BURSTING WITH PRIDE FOR FOOTBALL TEAMS CANYON VIES FOR ITS FIRST-EVER ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Picking up the slack has been an explosion in livestock futures.
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President Bush and his economic team, as well as others, shrug their collective shoulders and point out that Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, and Kia have made recent investments in the country, and therefore are picking up the slack from Detroit--that's how capitalism works.
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