as in slug
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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as in to drag
to move slowly
the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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Recent Examples of snail
New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2024
Klum’s aforementioned piece of the Berlin Wall and the giant blue plastic snail also take up residence at the property.
—Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2024
Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2 June 2020
Cathy Jordan may die as this snails its way through the system.
—Dara Kam, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
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Noun
Honda still needs to get the power to drive that snail from somewhere – this bike will need a substantially higher energy output from its alternator, and probably a larger battery, to run this compressor.
—New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2024
Klum’s aforementioned piece of the Berlin Wall and the giant blue plastic snail also take up residence at the property.
—Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
Davison and the scientists bred the lefty snails together, and over three years, nearly 15,000 eggs were hatched from four generations of snails, including Jeremy.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2 June 2020
Cathy Jordan may die as this snails its way through the system.
—Dara Kam, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail
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Studying the creature’s body physiology, habitat, and genome showed that this is no ordinary slug.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
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Clutch hits can elude them while singles have supplanted slug as their standard operating procedure.Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 28 Aug. 2024
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When the crime bosses checked in for their table assignments, they were arrested and dragged away so as not to tip off the next suspect.Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
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Wray said stepping down is the right thing to do for the FBI and will help avoid dragging it deeper into the fray, NPR's Ryan Lucas tells Up First.Brittney Melton, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
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The Czech capital of 1.3 million people has for a long time been a popular destination for noisy stag parties and pub crawlers, largely from Britain.AFP, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
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Though engineers have devised tricks for steering crawlers away from such spam clusters, even Google’s crawlers still from time to time capture billions of unique URLs redirecting to the same place.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
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Some sailors clung to mooring lines, crawling across to find safety.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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The creature then rips her mouth open and crawls inside.EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Don’t wait for slowpokes to join in; follow your heart and make your dreams come true.Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
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That said, not everyone agrees that letting the slowpokes who fumble with their bags in the overhead bins off first is more polite.NerdWallet, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
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That may allow patchwork-style legislation to creep into the AI sector.Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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That is still low by historical standards, although the rate has crept up from 3.7% at the start of the year.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Cleavage forming, hormones erupting, hair poking through in what feels like strange places and wanting to dance on the peripherals of sexiness.Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Dec. 2024
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This cute sweatshirt pokes fun at the sport’s quirky name with a watercolor print of two pickles playing pickleball.Cai Cramer, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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But among the 1,232 other import categories are some laggards.Ken Roberts, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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The 25 biggest laggards in the index year to date had a much better day.Fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Snail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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