go-slow
a work slowdown, as in sympathy with strikers or as a protest.
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How to use go-slow in a sentence
I also like Terra Kulture, a cultural center in Victoria Island, the restaurant there makes a nice smoothie called 'Go Slow.'
Even with a filibuster-proof majority, the Democratic Senate urged the White House to go slow.
The wise man, when the waves smile, ought to know how to behave; in the breakers he must go slow.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerThe rest seemed quite willing to go slow, and, as they put their pistols up, Devil Judd laughed in his beard.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.Merely he must go slow; take41 his own good time on a job; ask all the questions possible of his engineer neighbors.
Opportunities in Engineering | Charles M. Horton
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
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
(intr) to work deliberately slowly as a tactic in industrial conflict
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