Hottest chili. Share. The hottest chilli is Smokin Ed's 'Carolina Reaper', grown by The PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, throughout 2012.
Definition of slack. 1  1 : cessation in movement or flow. 2  2 : a part of something that hangs loose without strain take up the slack of a rope. 3  3 : trousers especially for casual wear âusually used in plural.  4 : a dull season or period.
Slack water (slack tide): The state of a tidal current when its velocity is near zero, especially the moment when a reversing current changes its direction and its. velocity is zero. The term is also applied to the entire period of low velocity near. the time of turning of the current when it is too weak to be of any practical.