Snail, e.g

• Slug
• Person who doesn't move very fast
• Snail, e.g.
• Someone who moves slowly
• Highway hazard
• Hardly a speed demon
• Dawdler has to stick on second base

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also slow poke , 1848, American English from slow (adj.) + poke (n.3), the name of a device, like a yoke with a pole, attached to domestic animals such as pigs and sheep to keep them from escaping enclosures. Bartlett (1859) calls it "a woman's word."

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who moves slowly; "in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach" [syn: plodder , stick-in-the-mud , slowcoach ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Slowpoke is a weekly comic strip by Jen Sorensen that appears in alternative weeklies and other publications in the United States . Slowpoke began in 1998 as a 24-page book, Slowpoke Comix #1 . Later that year it became a weekly strip, in which format it ...