To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
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".
- Attested since 1962 in Southern dialects of American English; of unknown origin.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010
Additional definitions for 'slow-walk':
| slow-walk | To punish, to chastise. |
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