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  • noun derogatory, UK a person who moves slowly.

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  • noun someone who moves slowly

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Examples

  • Mr Pickles criticised the "slowcoach" councils which had not yet published the information.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • The most amusing thing about this whole deal is that I am such a slowcoach on uphills that the GRD doesn't even break into a trot to keep up with me.

    It's a dog's life. matociquala 2009

  • Strolling, muscle-bound, almost entirely inflexible slowcoach Michael Ballack could be off to Schalke.

    Football transfer rumours: Kasper Schmeichel to Bayern Munich? 2010

  • I shall be pontificating on this at some stage - but don't hold your breath I'm a slowcoach when it comes to formulating a blog entry.

    1945 Thursday July 5th Polling Day Newmania 2007

  • "Grant isn't such a slowcoach as McClellan was, either, " Hill persisted.

    The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

  • Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach.

    Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

  • “I shall be angry if the old slowcoach is late,” said another.

    The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

  • But the gentleman was in a hurry; the gentleman always is; he could not wait for that old slowcoach of a Clubfoot to mature his plans for getting into England, securing the document, and getting out again.

    The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

  • They didn't know, of course, that Clubfoot, the old slowcoach, who is past his work, was aware of this already, and had made his plans accordingly.

    The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

  • The improvised old woman, I remember, got the name of slowcoach between us, and continued for perhaps three weeks or more.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

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