slow-walk

verb

Etymology

Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk".

Definitions

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To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a…
To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
- many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.
- Since assuming office, Trump has issued many private demands to aides that have either been slow-walked or altogether ignored.
- Mr. Pulte argued that Mr. Siebert was slow-walking the James case in order to get confirmed by the Senate for a job in a state with two Democratic senators, according to people briefed on the conversation.
To punish, to chastise.

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