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
Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
The snails have to breathe somehow.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
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
Wetlands in the area are also home to Everglades snail kites, which hunt for apple snails in freshwater marshes, and other rare species that once inhabited vast wet prairies drained for highways and neighborhoods.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
The snails have to breathe somehow.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
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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Some of the sensory tools in our bins that my daughter especially enjoyed are poppers, slug fidgets, pushpeel sensory boards, and an expanding breathing ball.—
Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
3 Feb. 2026
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Demanding papers, dragging away dissenters.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Slave catchers could capture them, kidnap them and drag them back South.—
Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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The hand crawler takes a different approach.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Maybe the girl had crawled under a neighbor's trailer while playing hide-and-seek.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026
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Well, there was a great deal left in me, in an agony of embarrassment looking around for that hole on the floor to crawl into.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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Innovation in Production Across legal markets, AI is already creeping into cultivation, not as sci-fi robots trimming buds, but as quiet systems making decisions humans used to make by gut.—
Aisha Alves,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2026
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The Leafs game did lag late, as sloppiness crept in before Bobby McMann sealed the win with an empty net goal.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The Jacksonville incident poked at the tension.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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The Stars pulled even when Nils Lundkvist poked a rebound past Hellebuyck on a shot from Duchene with five minutes left in the second period.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And once again, Pizza Hut was the laggard of the portfolio.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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So Canada has been, admittedly, a defense laggard for a long time.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Snail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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