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Slack

The English word “Slack” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

  1. A real-time collaboration app and platform launched in 2013.

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.

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