straggler

Backstory: Before he made movies, Hawkes sang and played guitar in an 1980s punk band called Meat Joy, followed by Gangster Folk and King Straggler.

And if he were to one day find a red straggler with the right surface features to indicate a primordial black hole?

“He threatened he would bring home a straggler one day,” she joked.

Novavax, a Gaithersburg, Md., biotechnology company, has been a straggler in the vaccine race.

She was aware that even after most of them were ejected, a tenacious straggler could still be hiding on the premises, capable of violence, and favoring her as his target.