go-slow

[ goh-sloh ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. a work slowdown, as in sympathy with strikers or as a protest.

go-slow

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalentslowdown
   1. a deliberate slackening of the rate of production by organized labour as a tactic in industrial conflict
   2. ( as modifier )

      go-slow tactics

verb

1. intr to work deliberately slowly as a tactic in industrial conflict

Word History and Origins

Origin of go-slow¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

I also like Terra Kulture, a cultural center in Victoria Island, the restaurant there makes a nice smoothie called 'Go Slow.'

From The Daily Beast

Even with a filibuster-proof majority, the Democratic Senate urged the White House to go slow.

From The Daily Beast

The wise man, when the waves smile, ought to know how to behave; in the breakers he must go slow.

From Project Gutenberg

The rest seemed quite willing to go slow, and, as they put their pistols up, Devil Judd laughed in his beard.

From Project Gutenberg

Merely he must go slow; take41 his own good time on a job; ask all the questions possible of his engineer neighbors.

From Project Gutenberg

After a man has rode fast onse, he never wants tew go slow agin.

From Project Gutenberg

"But I'll go slow—it may be only a trick," and away he crawled as silently as a snail along the brook's bank.

From Project Gutenberg