noun
- a person who moves, acts, or works slowly
Usage: informal
Examples
- Come on, slowpoke, we’re going to be late!
- My little brother is such a slowpoke when getting ready for school.
- Don’t be a slowpoke – everyone else has finished their homework already.
- She called him a slowpoke for taking so long to decide what to order.
- The slowpoke in our group always holds up the hiking trip.
- Stop being a slowpoke and hurry up with those dishes.