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slow-walk

To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.

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  • 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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Additional definitions for 'slow-walk':

slow-walkTo punish, to chastise.
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