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How to pronounce slowpoke in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms plodder, slowcoach, stick-in-the-mud
Type of dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer


in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach.

Examples of slowpoke

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Japan is still a slowpoke economy, but for dealmakers, it's the hottest game going.
From the businessweek.com
Coulter runs in the 4.65 range, and that makes him a slowpoke in this group.
From the stltoday.com
If I got stuck behind a slowpoke, the Lexus slowed down to prevent me from tailgating.
From the online.wsj.com
Corporate data centers are the slowpoke laggards of information technology.
From the nytimes.com
Mr. Harrington, winner of three recent majors, has long been singled out as a slowpoke.
From the online.wsj.com
Over the past two years, the company has quietly shed its image as the slowpoke of shipping.
From the businessweek.com
Nowadays, you'd be crazy to access the Net with the slowpoke technology available back then.
From the fresnobee.com
She'll flash the high beams at a slowpoke parked in the passing lane.
From the newsobserver.com
At rush hour, especially, they're not ready to cope with a slowpoke.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • Plodder: someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach"
  • The SLOWPOKE (acronym for Safe Low-Power Kritical Experiment) is a low-energy, pool-type nuclear research reactor designed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in the late 1960s. ...
  • Slowpoke is a weekly comic strip by Jen Sorensen that appears in alternative weeklies and other publications in the United States.
  • A person who moves, walks, or drives slowly.
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