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.
Meaning a cessation of flow in a current or tide is from 1756; that of still stretch of a river is from 1825. Meaning loose part or end (of a rope, sail, etc.) is from 1794; hence figurative senses in take up the slack (1930 figuratively) and slang cut (someone) some slack (1968). Meaning quiet period, lull is from 1851. Slacks loose trousers first recorded 1824, originally military.