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
Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
There was the man with 100 live snakes down his pants, another with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body, the 90 giant African snails discovered in Detroit and the endangered red panda found in Bangkok alongside 86 other animals.
—Cnn, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 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
What Happens Now The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently conducting a review of the snail's status to see whether the species needs special protection.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
There was the man with 100 live snakes down his pants, another with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body, the 90 giant African snails discovered in Detroit and the endangered red panda found in Bangkok alongside 86 other animals.
—Cnn, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 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
Noun
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Code the shareholders wished out before us like slugs in a... Conversion Karen Solie First impression of a hasty once-over.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
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And despite being a lefty, Smyly is a reverse-split guy, getting better numbers against righties than lefties — though he’s been strong against both this season, particularly limiting the slug against left-handed hitters.—
Sahadev Sharma,
The Athletic,
28 July 2024
Verb
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The deputies dragged Payne across the floor, according to the complaint.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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The project, known as Stargate, dragged the OpenAI chief into a new feud with his A.I. archnemesis, Elon Musk, and caused friction with an important ally, Microsoft.—
Andrew Ross Sorkin,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Before the update, website owners could restrict Google from crawling the results of internal searches, but crawlers at the time were now automatically able to discern which pages were deemed important to index.—
Elaine Mallon,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
27 Oct. 2024
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Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.—
Beth Worthy,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
Verb
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Emma Corrin — who plays Anna Harding, best friend to Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter — had to film a scene covered in rats that crawled on their bare chest.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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The investigators will lay out a grid at the scene, typically with string, and literally crawl around on their hands and knees in search of footprints or other clues.—
Adiel Kaplan,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Dryness, tightness, and flakiness seem to creep in overnight, leaving us wondering how to keep our glow through the season.—
Tira Urquhart,
Essence,
29 Jan. 2025
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Those reasons will become harder to defend as the deadline creeps closer and Ball continues to impress on both ends of the court.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Timothée Chalamet playfully poked fun at himself during his Saturday Night Live monologue on Jan. 25.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
26 Jan. 2025
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What to Expect Laser treatments are relatively quick, outpatient procedures that cause minimal pain; some people feel poking or burning sensations.—
Mark Gurarie,
Verywell Health,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Apple was one of the biggest laggards of the group, falling nearly 4% to extend this year’s losses to more than 8%.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Leading companies have three times as many full-time employees upskilled on AI over their laggard counterparts.—
Brian Solis,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Snail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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