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someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
- go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of snail (Entry 2 of 2)
to move slowly
- the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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“Snail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail. Accessed 16 Sep. 2021.
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