slowcoach BrE , also: slow coach
slowpoke AmE

"I shall be angry if the old slowcoach is late," said another.

Season 5 is the only season to feature Old Slowcoach.

He was drinking it faster than McCann, who's no slowcoach himself.

'I'm a bit of a slowcoach mostly,' said Sarah apologetically.

The Old Slowcoach is an elderly express coach.

Nadal, of course, is always something of a slowcoach in the way he moves between points.

Note: Slowcoach did not appear in the regular comic; it began after the merger with Buster.

"Grant isn't such a slowcoach as McClellan was, either," Hill persisted.

He called Nob a "slowcoach" twice.

Come on, don't be a slowcoach.'

"You are a slowcoach, aren't you?

The Slowcoach (1910)

It is as if the 200mph financial economy overtook the 100mph real economy, but, with its slipstream, helped the slowcoach to accelerate.

But Christine felt vexed when at the next Pack Meeting Sarah lost points for the Six through being a slowcoach.

'I'll never call you a slowcoach again,' she said fervently -'never, ever!'

'Oh, Sarah is a slowcoach!' groaned Christine, the Imp Second.

Bringing up the rear is the Greenfield, with its slowcoach Trident-based VGA card.

His slow pace gained him the nickname of Pachorra (lunfardo Spanish for "slowcoach").

Roly Poly Fatty Lumpkin Slowcoach Horse No 2 9.

Nicknames given by those who disliked his safety-first style of generalship, included 'Sir Crawling Camel' and 'Old Slowcoach'.

The three were also sometimes visited by a tortoise called Slowcoach, and in one particular episode, the trio meet a slightly mysterious character made out of potatoes called Dan the potato man.

Fill up on a cheesy meal up the mountain, then try to keep it down as your Dutch courage convinces you that you can overtake that slowcoach and steer round that hairpin in time.

When a workmen's hut on a coastal construction site caught fire, Thomas and Percy saw a chance to have Old Slowcoach repaired and brought back from the scrap yard, and she briefly served as a home for the workmen.

Slowcoach (from Whizzer and Chips) - Slowcoach is always guaranteed to be late and have an incredible excuse, such as being chased by tigers or falling into a printing press on the way.

I always had to stand a bit of legpulling from Mrs. Allen, a jolly talkative woman; on previous visits she had ribbed me mercilessly about being a slowcoach with the girls, the disgrace of having nothing better than a housekeeper to look after me.

He could move with a speed that made even them look like slowpokes.

And it comes with the fine moral that even fat old slowpokes can do some things better than machines.

Some like to start tomatoes this soon, too, but slowpokes do have a bit of a grace period as these plants grow fast.

It was not a planet for weaklings or slowpokes.

Usually he was an aggressive driver who cursed slowpokes.

Finally we're on our way for the second 12 or so miles; periodically, we halt for the slowpokes to catch up.

Slowpokes, he said, already spoil half the fun.

It occurs in all lanes, not just behind "slowpokes in the fast lane."

Looks as if the number of slowpokes, the second wave, will just about match the original fudge factor."

There's a special satisfaction to finishing something, anything, and we slowpokes have to wait a couple of years to get that satisfaction from a novel.

Life in the fast lane is for slowpokes; to live on the cutting edge has been cut to living on the edge.

Speed is another consideration for home networkers, and wireless systems are slowpokes compared with wired ones.

"Birdbeak says let's get on with it, slowpokes."

On a separate drive in a four-cylinder Sonata with automatic transmission, it became clear that even this white-bread model is not just for slowpokes.

Stephen Petronio's dances are not for slowpokes.

They're the slowpokes.

Slowpokes may refer to:

By the late 1960's air travel was so widespread, inexpensive and swift that trans-Atlantic steamers began to look like expensive old slowpokes.

The former are the slowpokes blocking you; the latter are the leadfoots zooming past you.

"Don't you hate slowpokes?"

Monica yelled, "Hurry up, slowpokes."

'Come on, you slowpokes.

D1 Proud to Be Slowpokes A growing number of marathoners have their eye on the finish line, but not the clock.

Boston College, like Harvard, allows no more than 20 minutes for moving in - to encourage slowpokes, explains its Transportation and Parking Department.

When the operator of a cargo van leaned on his horn to protest the slowpokes in his way, Mr. de Jong smiled.