Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

took up the slack

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables
took up the s-lack
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past of take up the slack

Questions

What does took up the slack mean?
simple past of take up the slack

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