dead slow

American  

adverb

Nautical.

1. as slow as possible without losing steerageway.

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Example Sentences

Their program is: full speed ahead in economics and education, dead slow in politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ComPilots provide the latest autopilot technology, including automatic bowthruster assist for dead slow or station keeping.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snow squalls and heavy seas made visibility poor and forced Endurance to creep forward with the engines dead slow as it headed into Stromness Bay.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

I’ve watched these villagers 364 now for three weeks and their lives seem so prosy, so dead slow, it is painful.

From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark

I suppose I must have dozed a little, for the next thing I remember was the whoop of our siren and the engines going dead slow.

From Aliens by McFee, William