go-slow

[ goh-sloh ]

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

Origin of go-slow

1
First recorded in 1925–30

Words Nearby go-slow

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How to use go-slow in a sentence

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

    Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings | Henry Wheeler Shaw
  • "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.

    The Boy Land Boomer | Ralph Bonehill

British Dictionary definitions for go-slow

go-slow

noun
  1. British : US and Canadian equivalent: slowdown

    • a deliberate slackening of the rate of production by organized labour as a tactic in industrial conflict

    • (as modifier): go-slow tactics

verbgo slow
  1. (intr) to work deliberately slowly as a tactic in industrial conflict

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