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skipper n. captain, master, commander; boss, leader, chief: The
skipper gave orders to put him in irons.
skirmish n. 1 fight, encounter, fray, brush, clash, engagement,
confrontation, showdown, combat, battle, conflict, struggle,
set-to, contest, scrimmage, fracas, tussle, mˆl‚e or melee, Law
affray, Colloq scrap, dust-up, Brit scrum: There was a brief
skirmish when the troops met a band of partisans.
--v. 2 fight, clash, struggle, battle, tussle, clash: At the
edge of the convoy a destroyer skirmished with a submarine.
sky n. 1 heaven(s), skies, arch or vault of heaven, firmament,
(wild) blue (yonder), ether, Archaic or literary welkin,
empyrean, azure: The dour, overcast sky gave the bleak moor a
chilling sense of foreboding. 2 to the skies. overly,
excessively, extravagantly, fulsomely, profusely, inordinately,
highly: If I praise him to the skies people will get the idea
that I benefit from his success.
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slab n. slice, wedge, piece, hunk, chunk, tranche, Colloq Brit
wodge: The keeper threw a large slab of meat into the lion's
cage.
slack adj. 1 remiss, careless, indolent, negligent, lax, lazy, idle,
neglectful, delinquent, inattentive, otiose, dilatory,
cunctatory, laggard, easygoing, slothful, sluggish, lethargic,
shiftless, do-nothing, fain‚ant, Colloq asleep at the switch or
the wheel, asleep on the job: Production has fallen off because
the workers are getting slack. 2 loose, flabby, flaccid, soft,
limp, baggy, drooping, droopy, bagging, sagging, floppy: The
flag hung down, slack in the still air.
--v. 3 Often, slack or slacken off or up. a let go, let run,
let loose, release, slacken, loose, loosen, relax, ease (out or
off), let up (on): Slack off the stern line a bit. b slow
(down or up), delay, reduce speed, tire, decline, decrease,
diminish, moderate, abate, weaken: Barnes could not keep up his