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snail
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someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up Synonyms crawler, dallier, dawdler, dragger, laggard, lagger, lingerer, loiterer, plodder, slowpoke, stragglerRelated Words latecomer; idler, lazybones, loafer, lounger, slouch, slug, sluggard; delayer, procrastinatorNear Antonyms go-getter, hustler, scrambler; hurrier, rusher, speederAntonyms speedster
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snail
Synonyms and Antonyms of snail
to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles Synonyms creak (along), creep, drag, inch, limp, nose, ooze, plod, poke, slouch, crawlRelated Words lumber, shamble, shuffle, tramp, trudgeNear Antonyms float, glide, sail; hurry, tearAntonyms fly, race, speed, whiz (or whizz), zip
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