slowcoach
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of slowcoach
Example Sentences
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I love the and am thrilled to be poring over the form for it once more, looking for the unconsidered slowcoach who could be inspired by the challenge.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011
The army was exasperated by Aly Maher's slowcoach approach to the key issue of the whole cleanup movement: land reform.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
But Epimetheus was a very slow fellow, certainly, and went among men for a clod, and a muff, and a milksop, and a slowcoach, and a bloke, and a boodle, and so forth.
From The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
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.
From The Man with the Clubfoot by Valentine Williams
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