snails 1 of 2

noun

Definition of snailsnext
plural of snail
as in slugs
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up

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snails

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verb

present tense third-person singular of snail
as in crawls
to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

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  1. slugs
  2. crawlers
  3. pokes
  4. laggards
Noun
  • Keeping Away Pests The alluring smell of a fresh cup of joe does not have the same effect on insects and pests like snails and slugs.
    Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Keeping Away Pests The alluring smell of a fresh cup of joe does not have the same effect on insects and pests like snails and slugs.
    Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of slugs
Noun
  • Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.
    Beth Worthy, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Of a search engine’s parts, which include things such as web crawlers, ranking algorithms and the search interface itself, the index may be the most difficult to create.
    Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of crawlers
Verb
  • Loose threads that fly about vigorously in the wind decorate almost every garment, the inside lining often pokes out in random places, and cutoff sleeves are repositioned as dress pockets.
    Denni Hu, WWD, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Ellen pokes her head out from behind a door as her friends grow impatient.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
Definition of pokes
Noun
  • The 25 biggest laggards in the index year to date had a much better day.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Best Buy and Stanley Black & Decker were among Tuesday’s biggest laggards.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of laggards
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snail-paced

snails

snake

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