slowpoke

Jones, the first-round draft pick, had trouble hanging onto the ball at times, but he had a strong arm and was no slowpoke, like Manning.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2019

Gov. Newsom kept her on as leader of a “strike team” to reform the slowpoke Department of Motor Vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2019

And what is with all the slowpoke drivers in town with “Oregon” license plates?

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2019

After an asteroid crashed into the earth 66 million years ago, triggering a mass extinction, it would have been harder for slowpoke reproducers like dinosaurs to recover.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2017

And I hate to say it but Adah is just as ornery and bent on destruction, in her own slowpoke way.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023

“It’s a tight track and we’re going out first and I catch the slowpokes all the time.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2022

Dmitriy Katsnelson’s take on the bull reminds me when a friend and I were cooling our heels on a golf course, waiting for the four slowpokes in front of us to move on.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017

But it just seems that there’s a bigger proportion of slowpokes among the very best players, and I don’t think it’s an accident.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 11, 2017

Of course we can’t guarantee that he’ll still be there when you slowpokes arrive.”

From The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp by Ross Kay