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 equivalent: slowdown. 

   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