as in slug
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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as in to drag
to move slowly
the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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Recent Examples of snail
Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2025
The snail itself wasn’t found with the shells, but the shell was enough to diagnose the animal, Czaja said.
—Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
What can snail mucin do for your skin?
—Lacey Muinos, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
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Noun
Slugs, snails, and even earwigs will often congregate in these damp spots and be much easier to collect.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2025
The snail itself wasn’t found with the shells, but the shell was enough to diagnose the animal, Czaja said.
—Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Verb
Could snail slime and salmon sperm be the next big things in skincare?
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
What can snail mucin do for your skin?
—Lacey Muinos, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail
Noun
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Other than the small slug of stock each of the venture firms sold at $33, the rest of their holdings are subject to a lock-up period, meaning all of the current value is currently just on paper.—
Ari Levy,
CNBC,
31 July 2025
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Anthony Santander remains weeks away from hitting due to an early-season shoulder injury, and Toronto could target a rental power hitter to replace his switch-hitting slug.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
Verb
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The season ends with Sophie dragging Kyle’s body through the woods and to the edge of a cliff, dropping it in the water below.—
Melissa Locker,
Time,
23 July 2025
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Charlie's sudden, grotesque exit becomes the catalyst for the rest of the film, dragging her family down a relentless tailspin of grief (and ancestral demons).—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Treatment with contact insecticides after the crawlers have settled down and molted to the second nymphal stage of their lifecycle is not effective.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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Pay per crawl is currently in private beta; interested sites and crawlers can reach out to Cloudflare.—
Emily Forlini,
PC Magazine,
1 July 2025
Verb
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Ever since Google emerged as the home page of the Web in the early 2000s, media outlets operated under the assumption that Google would reliably crawl their sites and send audience their way.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 July 2025
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Silver floral detailing crawled along the right hip of the gown and the left side of Lohan’s midsection.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
31 July 2025
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Across the Volunteer State, temperatures are expected to creep down as July ends and August begins.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
29 July 2025
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So, how long will that last, especially with artificial intelligence seemingly creeping into every aspect of life?—
Andrew Montequin,
jsonline.com,
29 July 2025
Verb
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This review pokes a useful hole in the breathless reception this film received, while managing to feel fond.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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The dish is almost a tease, tickling and poking you by showcasing carrots such that here a confident argument is made to herald them in as the pre-eminent salad vegetable.—
Timothy DePeugh,
Charlotte Observer,
23 July 2025
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Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla remains the biggest laggard in the group, with its stock down about 17% this year heading into Wednesday’s earnings report after the bell.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
22 July 2025
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Forty-six percent of supply chain laggards cited supply chain disruptions on their earnings calls, while 37 percent reported delays as major contributors to underperformance.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
18 July 2025
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“Snail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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