Usually means: Compensate for someone's deficiencies.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pick up the slack)

verb:  Alternative form of take up the slack
verb:  To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
verb:  To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
verb:  To provide extra needed resources.
verb:  (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
verb:  To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.

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