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Definition of Slowpokes
1. slowpoke [n] - See also: slowpoke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowpokes
Literary usage of Slowpokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"... the best venue for appreciating the scenery, even for a short walk, for Hwy-100
is a fast, divided highway whose drivers don't appreciate slowpokes. ..."
2. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"I only wish it was true, but unfortunately I am still here, doing all that I can,
be assured, to hustle along the slowpokes who are running, ..."
3. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J. Chamberlin (1903)
"I only wish it was true, but unfortunately I am still here, doing all that I can,
be assured, to hustle along the slowpokes who are running, ..."
4. Our Natupski neighbors by Edith Miniter (1916)
"True for you, papa," 'Statia shrilled, for she was quick and had caught the joke,
so to the dickens with all slowpokes in the back seats. ..."
5. Ordered to China: Letters Written from China While Under Commission from the by Wilbur J. Chamberlin, Georgia Louise Chamberlin (1904)
"I only wish it was true, but unfortunately I am still here, doing all that I can,
be assured, to hustle along the slowpokes who are running, ..."
6. Memoirs of a Winner by Gary Ward Scott (2007)
"The latter, I did one night while hurrying around slowpokes in front. The former,
a friend did while she and her husband were visiting the nearby Island of ..."
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