slowpoke

[ sloh-pohk ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a person who makes slow progress.

   Synonyms: dallier, dawdler, slug, laggard

slowpoke

/ ˈsləʊˌpəʊk /

noun

1. informal.
   the usual US and Canadian word for slowcoach

Word History and Origins

Origin of slowpoke¹

First recorded in 1915–20; slow + poke ¹

Example Sentences

Even Caitlin Clark and Iowa — not exactly slowpokes themselves — couldn’t keep up.

From Seattle Times

It revealed that gaps in state law and slowpoke regulators allowed health care workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.

From Seattle Times

One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.

From Scientific American

“This is a very mortifying situation,” Fisher Ames of Massachusetts said then, at Federal Hall in New York City, while waiting for his slowpoke colleagues.

From Washington Post

“It’s a tight track and we’re going out first and I catch the slowpokes all the time.”

From Seattle Times