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slack-key

[slak-kee]
–noun Also, slack key.
1. a style of Hawaiian popular music played on an acoustic guitar with strings tuned to notes lower than standard guitar tuning for more bass resonance.
–adjective
2. noting or pertaining to this style of music.
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slack-key   (slāk'kē')
adj.  Of or being a style of Hawaiian popular music played by fingerpicking an acoustic guitar that has been tuned to any of various open chords.
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